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1924 Football Review
University of Notre Dame
Edited hv HARRY McGUIRE · ]ACT.\ SCALLAN
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Thomas .Coman Oeorqe Bischoff Eustace Cullinan Lester Heqele Francis Miller . Lester Gradv t William Reid David Hickelj · Franklin Conwalj Charles Donahue Prof. Charles Phillips Frank Masterson I Wilbur lylcEirolj James Armstrong Gerald Holland i• I I The editors wish to acknowledge the assistance given bv Mr. Rockne,-Mr. Harrv Elmore and I Mr. AI. Rvan in the compilation of this Review
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CAPTAIN WALSH and COACH ROCKNE THIS 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW
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Out of the West Came Roclc and his men; Lightning o7~ lightning flashed, Thunder on mountains crashed, Into the East they smashed- Roclc and his men.
On to the field Come Roclc and his men Fighting a foreign foe, Hitting them high and low, Down to the goal they go- . Roclm.t/s men.
There on the field Stand· Roclc ·and his men; Sound of the whistle dies, Up to the farthest slcies · Boom now the frenzied cries, · uRoclc and your men!"
North, east, south and ·w~st So Roclc and his men Riding the •wings of speed, Galloping, steed on s.teed, Slcirting the ends· lilce flame, Cyclones whose very fame Devastates •with a name- uRoclc and his m.(m.,
Baclc to the West Come Roclc and his men; Baclc to their comrades true, Under the Gold and Blue Fighting men turned from war, Hear they the awful roar Smiting the heaven·s for Roclc and his m.en.
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HE CHRONICLE of the 1924 seasoh, as offered to you in the paqes to follow, has,. its {~zipiration in. T the achievements and traditions that cluiracterize· the University of Notre Dam-e and its student .body. JVhat success it has beeit the privilege of the team to cnjo,lf duri;zg the 1924 football season can be attributed to a wholesome inter~st_ in the act_ivities of the ·student '· __ , bod,1f b.1J those men who represent N_ otr_e Dame on the gridiron. Their_ efforts hav-e been expeizded-, ·at all times,· in a spirit' of lo.1falty- to Jl otre Dame. JV orldng as a unit for the success of the team, forgetting th~ individ ual, personal interest, the men on the squad have ac complished their purpose. It has, been team-worlc, sub- 11iission to discipline, .the employment ()f mental faculties to mee~ conditim!s ·as they arose, that figured prominent l.1f in their victories. To ever.1J man on the squad, to thos-e who have ·worlced in gm1zes, scrimmages, practices, is full. credit forthcom ing. It is a 11leasure to be the coach of sitch _a group f!f . . gentlemen, students and athletes .. · K. K! .ROCKNE.
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The 19.24 Victories
October 4 ______.___ Notre Daine ______.40; Ltnnbard ------0 Octber 11 -~------Notre Danle------"--34; Wabash ~------0 Octobei· 18 ______Notre Daine______13; Army ------7 Octobei· ·25 ______Notre Dmne ______12; Princeton ------0 N ove1nber 1· ______._____ Notre Daine.-----~-----34; Georgia Tech______3 Nove1nber 8 __ ·______Notre Dame ______38; \~Tisconsin ------3 N ove1nber 15 :------Notre Da1ne ______3:4; Nebraska ------6 N ove1nber. 22 --~------: ____ Notre .D.anle ______13 ~ N ortlnvestern ------6 November· 29 .. -~-'------N o~re Dan1e-----~----· __ 40; Carnegie Tech ______19
Total nunlber of p_oints .~cored: ~ otre Dame, 258; Opponents, 44. I.
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KNUTE K. RoCKNE ------·········· I-Iead Coach ToM LIEn ········~·-··------: ••• Assistmit Coach HARTLEY ANDERSON ------"Assistant Coach GEoRGE KEoGAN ------Freshman Coach GEORGE VERGARA ·------~Assistant Freshman Coach AtiAl\1 \VALSH ------··-----·---·------·-· Captain LEo SuTLIFFE ·------~------·-----·---- Student ~tanager
· The Personnel .. I I \VALSH \VEIDEL CERNEY RoAcH HANOUSEK CRoWLEY BACH · CoNNEL O'BoYLE GLUECI\:ERT ~ :MILLER E. :MILLER CROWE HEARNDON HARRINGTON STUHLDREHER CoLLINS EATON REESE . 1\:lcl\fANl\ION LAYDEN HuNSINGER . HARMON HousER BoLAND KIZER LIVERGOOD . ScHERER EDWARDS :MAXWELL G. :MILLER ~Icl\luLLE~T
The Reserves KEEFE CoHEN ANDERDERGER 'SULLIVAN GEBHARDT RIG ALI REIDY CANNY DAHMAN ~IcCAnE c. REILLY BIELLI ·.1\fuLiiN: FRISKE GISH TRUCKNER \VHALEN 1\fcNALLY GoRMAN DIENHART \VHILTE EGGERT STACK \VYNNE ARNDT WALLACE E. CRowE CouGHLIN BROWN 1\fuRRIN 1\fAYER PRELL I GENIESSE ITi:LLJT L ri• IT -:rrrrc . I J >".: .: ':· .. · . /l ' '_..· ..
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In the building of the NTom Lieb, assistant varsity coach; George Keogan, freshman coach; George Vergara; assistant freshman coach; and Hartley Anderson varsity line coach. Tom Lieb won his spurs in Notre Dame football, playing half-back and tackle in the years 1920-21-22. Lieb in his last year of varsity competition, playing at right tackle, was headed for a berth. on the mythical all-some thing teams that annually complete the football season, when· a .broken leg sustained in the Purdue game . cut short I his gridiron career. · Lieb returned in . track however and ~ balanced his loss of football .honors by gaining fame as a discus thrower, win ning the state title, representing · the TOM LIEB United States ·on the discus team in the 1924 Olympics and :finally breaking the world's i·ecord in the discus throw last September. Lieb is a member of the Illinois Athletic club. To Lieb goes much of the credit for the caliber of the No- . 1 .. tre Dame line this year, which weilded a terrifying power over all opponents and paved the way for an untied and undefeated season. j Assisting Tom Lieb in preparing the linemen for the great campaign was :flartley "Hunk" Anderson, another former Notre Dame player who served at the left guard berth during the years 1919-20-:-21. He holds the unique record of recovering two fumbles. in quick succession
against P~rdue ~nd running for touchdowns each time. .\ Anderson and Lieb were former teammates of George Gipp, Notre Dame's all-time all-American. J George Keogan came· to Notre Dame in 1922 and assisted Rockne in football, GEORGE KEOGAN j serving as ~lead coach of basketball and baseball. Coach Keogan has worked with Rockne for two years in the task I of building up winning. football teams~ The freshman squad under the tutelage of Keogan has stood up against the· varsity and fought with 'the I regulars to put them in condition for the season's grind. ! I George Vergara assisted Keogan this year in drilling the yearling squad for scrimmage against the varsity, the :first year men using the opposition's formations. Vergara played one year with Fordham before coming to No tre Dame and serv.ed two years with the Fighting Irish at end and ·guard. GEO.VERGARA Paqe 10 1924 F007"BALL REVIEW Adatn Walsh Captain No matter how brilliant are painted the many episodes that appeared in the 1924 season of Notre Dame football, episodes of sensational victories and sterling indi vidual performances, the historians who fifty years hence recount the deeds of the Fighting Irish will be drawn by a special force to the chronicle of the career of Adam vValsh, center and captain of the national champions. The particular special force that em bellishes the. work of Notre Dame's fight ing captain who will long be remembered in the annals of the sport. with Gipp, Thorpe, Coy, Heston and Grange, is one common to human nature since the begin ning of time. :Men are quick to admire a leader of ultra-courageous qualities, and in Adam Walsh the poets will find a cap tain in all the fullness of the qualities that are expected from a leader. Notre Dame tradition years hence will sparkle with the narrative of the football player who fought ~he mighty Army host on Oct. 18, 1924 at the Polo Grounds in New ·york, with two broken hands; who was knocked out several times in the course of the game and had to be lifted to his position. For weeks after the Notre Dame eleven had made its victorious sweep through the east, the sport circles along the east coast hitherto given entirely to Yale, Harvard and Princeton, were hubs of excited comment and discussion about the Notre Dame captain. Written tribute crowded the pages of the daily press and an other~ football demi-god was proclaimed, and rightly so. It was a thing to marvel at, the feeling of security that settled over the foot~all fans at a Notre Dame game when Adam Walsh ran out on the field to take his place at center. Without the slightest hesitation he was accepted as the last word in capability and Captain Walsh never gav~ the sporting world reason to believe otherwise. Notre Dame's captain will be looked upon ti] the end of time as one of the most ideal cap tains that ever led a Notre Dame football team. His unlimited courage and fearlessness com bined with an unquestionable ability to play the game was the great factor that made Rockne's. eleven the most united football team of the year. Of course it will never be forgotten that Walsh served with men whose devotion to N otrc Dame was established beyond reproach and whose fidelity to the teachings of .Rockne was the reason why Notre Dame. is national cham pion today. The player's devot.ion to their school was manifested in their support of their captain and no one lived who could question the fact why they supported their captain. 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Page 11
Great leaders of armies whose deeds are recorded in history have always been men who never asked their men to do what they themselves would not attempt to do. Those leaders were men who took no pains to spare their lives at the expense of their comrades. Adam '\Valsh re sponded to everything the spirits of great leaders asked of him. He was in every play on defense and on offense and exercised inimitable judgment in ·directing his team "ROCK" IN ACTION in the path of victory. Walsh came to Notre Dame from Hollywood high school in 1921, where he excelled in four major sports. In stature he is typical of the strong, ,well proportioned men who live along our 1vestern ·coast. His year on the freshman team at Notre -Dame was short lived, an injury keeping him out of competition for the better part of the year. For. definite information and minute details of Adam "\Valsh's brief stay with the yearling eleven, Hartley "Hunk" Anderson, Ojay Larson and Harry 1\Iehre could give a good account. Against these men, the green fresl1man team were forced to contend and night after night they were subject to mu<:h punishment, sacrificing themselves for the sake of Rockne and· the team that was to carry the colors through a glorious· year, marred only by the Iowa defeat.
In 1922 "\Valsh made his first appearance on the varsity and alternated with Bill Voss and Bob Reagan in holding down the center of the line through a hard· season, tarnished again 1vith defeat, this time by Nebraska... In 1923, "\Valsh carried most of the burden, ably assisted by Reagan who was playing his last year. Two years of playing had served to bring "\V alsh to the fore-front in. American college foot ball. In the Army game of 1923, "\Valsh decisively outplayed and ou.tfought the mighty Gar- ~isch who was then play!ng his se~enth ·year of varsity football. . · In 1924, Walsh at center for Notre Dame met Garbisch, the center and captain of the Army, and the minute by minute. account of that memorable struggle beggars all description: Every voi~e in the land recounted the story of the heroic captain who led his team· to victory against the greatest eleven of the east, and fought off the crashing, plunging backs in the lVest Point backfield with a bone broken in each hand . . Adam '\Valsh played his last game in the middle 'vest against Carnegie Tech, and out of the bitter strife of a cold wintry afternoon arose another picture of the fighting captain, painfully inj urcd, but always fighting doggedly to hold on and stem the rush of the _victory hunting hordes in front of him. A half a century hence, the story of Adam 'Valsh and the great Notre Dame team of 1924 \\,:ill be pretty. much of a legend, one of the outstanding adornments of Notre Dame's tradi tions. The wild applause of the stands :will be but an echo rolling down through the valley of time. "\Valsh and the players who are today the idols of the nation will then have run the gauntlet of the time and from a high mountain, they will look down upon the glorious past and all the colorful triumphs garnered by the \ spirit of youth in eager quest of victory and the spoils of conquest. In the shadows of the sunset of life when the past has sunk into oblivion, Adam 'Valsh will have his treasured memories and the men who fought with ~lim and the men who yelled and prayed for. him will have memories-mem- ories of a fearless captain. T. CoMAN, '25
I I I Page 1.2 19.24 FOOTBALL REVIEW THE TEAM Adam Walsh Captain Adam \Valsh of Hollywood, California, closes a football career without a parallel in the history of the sport, at the Tournament of Roses on New Year's Day, a few miles from the plac~ where the blonde giant learned the game in high school. Volumes of praise could be written about Adam Walsh. Confined to this brevity, the least that can be said about him is that he was a brave and worthy leader. He played the game as few men have ever played it before him. · He was magnifi cently unselfish and gave his best for Notre Dame. Sheer grit and determination upheld by the courage of a fighting heart has won for Adam· Walsh a place for all time in f# the hearts of the football world. · I James Crowley I Left Half.. Back James "Sleepy" Crowley of Green Bay, Wisconsin, has I been an enigma to the sporting world for three years ·during which time he has added considerably to the history of the sport with performances beyond description and imitation. He appears on the football field as the strange combina tion of two opposites: slow, carele~s indifference, and the speed I of a deer. His unique poise has been one of the inexplicable chapters in the game, for, from dead idle stance; Crowley is transformed· in an instant into a racing demon, the _terror of teams and one of· the hardest players to tackle. He is a mem I ber of the "Four Horsemen" and one of the most versatile half 1 backs in the country. His running, passing and kicking have won for him unlimited honors, but they seem to make not the I slightest difference to the youth with the droll honor, who luggs the ball and never fails. I Jimmie has not failed to make a backfield position on every \ All-American picked this year. I Elmer Layden !full-Back Elmer Layden of Davenport, Iowa, made his debut in Not:re J Dame football heralded by a great prep school reputation. Un like many other youthful stars whose entry into college foot ball marks the end of their trail of gridiron accomplishments, I Layden tacked his hopes and ambitions to higher rewards and the close of his. brilliant football career finds him one of the -~ most accomplished players of the age. He is almost a universal j· choice for All-American honors. I A member of the nationally known "Four Horsemen," the bullet fullback who shoots his body through space for long I gains, has been one of the most consistent performers on the I Notre Dame team for the past three years. His general all around ability as punter, drop-kicker, passer, ball-carrier par excellence, has made him of incomparable value to the team. His work in the interference has no equal and on defense he I backs up the line to the final degree of perfection. He has I fought for Notre Dame in many memorable battles during his three years of competition in which time he has been a marked I man like so many of his teammates. Stanford will see him in his last game and Layden will be ready to acquit himself to the best of his ability for the team and for Notre Dame. . I
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fiarry St4hldreher Quarter-Back Beloved fandom and the impresarios of the sport page have christened Harry Stuhldreher, of Massilon, Ohio, with a multi tude of names, descripted of his prowess as a football quarter back, and the power behind the Notre Dame attack. The "field general" of Rockne's eleven, the "pilot of the four horsemen," the "most br~lliant quarterback that ever trod the white lined field" are but a thimble full· of Stuhldreher's titles. All the superlatives in the language have been ex hausted in a vain attempt to describe the Notre Dame pilot. The "Napoleon of the gridiron" whose playing has been one of the paramount sensations of the season, prepared at Kiski and since his first game in college football, has been the mov ing factor behind the Notre Dan:te attack. Stuhldreher who has been picked on every All-American team thus far selected, has keen intelligence and a quick pre ception which enables him to diagnose plays and direct the de fense. On the offense, he stu_dies his opponents and directs the play where it will do the most good. He has supreme confi dence in his teammates and is known to take long chances when a break migpt mean disaster. Coach Stagg, of Chicago, not given much to comment, merely shook his head and said, "My, what a quarterback." Don Miller Right Half,Back Don Miller of Defiance, Ohio, the last of the Miller "Mo hicans," carved his name in football's hall of fame close beside that of Layden, Stuhldreher and Crowley, as one of the bril liant quartet of "Horsemen." A youth who did not look to be the football flash the country knows so well today, came to Notre Dame in 1921. He served his apprenticeship with Castner, Bergman and Maher and in 1923 became undisputedly identified with the so-called "Four Horsemen." Saturday after Saturday, Don Miller fol- . lowed in the dazzling pace set by his famous brothers ·and touchdowns became a matter of custom. This year, he added to his laurels as one of the best forward pass receivers in the country and continue Edgar Miller Right Tackle His physical proportions and innate fighting qualities made "Rip" Miller of Canton, Ohio, one of the best tackles Notre Dame has ever had. His massive form, well carried and em ploye.d to the best advantage by a mind tha~ ~ne:v the game, has prevailed before some of the finest opposition m the coun try, making it difficult for a gain through the Notre Dame line. "Rip" served two years as understudy to Cotton and Oberst, but when the last season rolled around and Rockne be gan to build up his line for the hardest of campaigns, Miller stepped into the right tackle berth and as a regular, performed his work with great credit. His speed and aggressiveness made him a dangerous man at all times, and the opponent's backfield considered it a toss-up as to which side of the line to try, Bach or Miller; a back could not get by either of them. - • • ? - ~ • • i :· ~ - ~ ~. ' • , ~ - - - • - " • ---- __ : __ ~ _: ... · -·.- ... - Page 14 1924 FQO·TBALL REVIEW John Weibel Right Guard John Weibel, of Erie, Pa., was introduced to Rockne in the spring practice of 1922, after playing with Brownson hall dur ing his freshman year. Hi_s qualities as a guard were not long in presenting themselves to the Notre Dame coach, and the close of three years of college football finds "\Veibel today, re: garded as one of the greatest linemen ever developed at Notre Dame. His work on the offense· was a mighty factor in paving the way for the fleet Irish bacj{s. Weibel, one of the lightest guards in major college football, weighing 165 pounds, served as understudy to Capt. Harvey Brown for two years and in the last year of his competition, cinched a regular guard berth without dispute. He formed with Noble Kizer and Adam "\Valsh one of the most powerful center trios that has ever worn a Notre Dame uniform.· His <;lefensive playing bespeaks a stout heart and his courage never faltered in the face of line plunges by mighty backs. Joe Bach Left-Tackle Joe Bach, of Chisholm, Minn., after serving two years with exceptional credit in the Notre Dame line, will wear the mole skins for the _last time against Leland Stanford. His passing will. leave a huge gap on the left side of the line that will be hard to fill. Bach ascended the ladder of fame by leaps and bounds after the Army game of 1923, when he appem;eg at the tackle berth to take the place of Gus Stange who haQ. been injured. Critics called him the tackle find of the year, and his massive strength rose to immeasurable proportions in front of the Army line, paving the way for another triumph. His powers of courage are the equal of any which have ever been displayed in football, and when he was knocked out in the Nebraska game, the fans .realized that the. going was pretty tough in the line. He was a hard and sure tackler and it was not an uncommon sight to . see Bach throw the offensive ball carrier for a loss. Bach played one year at Carlton college be- fore coming to Notre Dame. . Charles Collins Left End "Chuck" Collins came to Notre Dame from St. Ignatius of Chicago. During his three years of major college football, Collins never once has failed in his duty on the left flank, and deserves to be remembered with the great ends in football history. · He performs his work silently. He has mastered the fun damentals of his position and directs his every movement for the benefit of the team. He has faced good competition for the flank berth, but always he has been found depen·dable, ever aggressive-and a man with a true fighting heart. He is as good on the offense as he is on the 9.efense, receiving passes and forming interference for the ball carriers. With exceptional speed he goes down under punts and seldom fails to get his man. This is his third year as a monogram man. ~" . ·-·--~--=- ·-.~ --.:.. .. ".- 1924 F007'BALL REVIEW Page 15 Noble Kizer Ri~ht Guard Noble Kizer came to Notre Dame heralded as a great bas ketball man, but no one ever heard of Kizer the football guard till the season of 1922 and during the two seasons that followed. · His height, his weight and natural aggressiveness combined with his keen mental powers were not long in reserve for bas ketball, once Rockne had ·discovered him. He fitted into the Notre Dame mentor's picture of the ideal guard, and his 165 pounds were pronounced as ideal for the man who would play in the guard berth. Maurie Smith and Harvey Brown were his predecessors of similiar type and the pace set by these men was quickly taken up by Kizer. He teamed admirably with ·weibel and these men have been two of the greatest factors instru mental in Notre Dame's gridiron success. Like his teammates I in the line, he is not given much credit for his incomparable work, but Kizer played for the team and not his own personal i fame and in the inner life of Notre Dame, he will never be forgotte~. 1 Edward Hunsinger Ri~ht End "All things come to him who waits", and the season of 1924 was the reward for Ed Hunsinger of Chillicothe, Ohio. Ever sin~e his freshman year in 1921, Hunsinger has had to con 1 tend with more experienced competition, but after graduation had taken Carberry and Mayl from the ranks, Rockne had a faithful and dependable end to call in, who displayed an inimi i table fighting spirit in every game. As zealously did Collins guard the left flank, so Hunsinger 1 stood watch over the right. Rockne did not drill his ends to ! turn the play in and smash interference all year merely for i exercise. Experience had revealed . to him, that his team was I complete with Collins and Hunsinger, and neither wingman ! failed to produce during the long hard season of 1924. Hun ' singer's place will be another spot hard to fill as his verv de pendable understudy, Eaton, also graduates in June.· I I I I Bernard Livergood ~ i Fullback I Bernie Livergood came unheralded and unsung from Stonington, Ill., in 1921. .He played on the freshman team and showed much promise of becoming one of the stellar ball car.; 1 riers of future teams. I I Fate however intervened and the handicap of injuries which I kept him on the sidelines foi· a year was further augmented I by the presence of Layden and Cerney on the squad to make i the competition harder for a regular berth. However, the fate I that kept Livergood in the background during the past two years suddenly changed this fall and Livergood stepped out as one of the demon ball carriers of Notre Dame. His .work all season proved his worth, which hitherto was concealed by force of circumstances. His line plunging and defensive tactics provided thrill after thrill for the football world. He is one of the three fullbacks who graduate in June and leave a huge vacancy to fill next fall. · Page 16 192.4 FOO?:BALL REVIEW John ~c~anmon Ri~ht Tackle John McManmon, of Lowell, Massachusetts, augmented the efficiency· of the right tackle berth by his giant stature this fall. Playing his first year of varsity football, he capably filled in for Rip Miller, when the regular tackle was waiting his turn to go into action. McManmon has all the qualities of a tackle. His physical pr_oportions enable him to cover his . territory well and his natural aggressiveness has be_en the thorn in the side of a good . many opponents. His year of service with the s!tock troops was completed with great credit and the sporting world of 1925 will expect even greater things :from him. Thomas Hearnden Ri~ht Half-Back Thomas "Red" Hearndon wh9 came here from Green Bay, Wisconsin, the town that produced the inimitable Jimmy Crow ley, was one of the new develonments in the 1924 season at Notre Dame. Hearndon and his sophomore teammates were part of the great cycle that rolls around each year; the cycle that is developed while the veterans are carrying on. Hearndon, give~ much pron"lise of being a valuable addition to future varsity teams. On numerous occasions he proved his worth as a ball carrier and looked good in the interference. His work on the eastern inv~sions was good enough to elicit special c<;>mmendation from Coach Rockne. Edward Scharer Quarterback l Eddie Scharer of Toledo, can:te to Notre· Dame from the l university of Detroit where he starred in his first year of var I sity football. Scharer learned his game on the famous Waite high school (Toledo) eleven, and although he is not large in ! stature, he has a world of natural ability and a capacity to I think football. He alternated at quarterback this fall with "Red" Edwards . and ran his eleven shock troops with the hand of a master. Scharer is a forward passer, but he gave only a few exhibi tions of his talent· in this department during the year just closed. He was declared out of football for the year at one time because of a serious injurY., but medical treatment soon 1 had him back into the lineup. Clem Crowe Left End Clem Crowe; of Lafayette, I~d,iana, like Noble Kizer came to Notre Dame heralded as a wonder of the basketball court, but Rockne soon began to prepare his great speed and natural aggressiveness for football. In the season of 1923, CroweJ playing his first year of var sity football, broke into the limelight by his vicious tackling and fast work going down under punts. He faced competi tion, however, frol'l} a more ~xperien~ed ·rival and during the past season has served admirably with the shock troops · as understudy to Collins. Crowe's work in the Army and Prince ton game was especially good and his presence will be valuable on the 1925 squad. • :~·--~"'lt ...:!.:: ... -' '-· ·---·-----.--· l. 1924 FOO'IBI1LL REVIEW Page 17 Ward Connell Ri~ht Half-Back \Vard "Doc" Connell of Beloit, has for three years. been a member of the shock troops,_ the men who go in to take the brunt of the fight and at the same time, wear down the op position. Connell, a product of the Notre Dame prep school, has been one of Rockne's most dependable ground-gainers, and when the season is over on New Year's pay, fandom will have several games by which to remember the crashing, tearing halfback who bowled over tacklers like so many ten pins. After the defeat at Nebraska last year, Connell exhibited some new stuff in the Butler game, playing with reckless abandon. He re peated at Carnegie Tech where he made it a habit to score touchdowns. He continued to play great football all this Fall and will be missed when they call the roll for next year. William Cerney Full-Back Bill Cf.:rney of Chicago, who prepared at St. Ignatius with "Chuck" Collins, was the fiery spirit behind the shock troops ~ i .- . attack. Cerney who has worn the monogram for football for \. ·. three years was forced to contend with Layden and Livergood !· for the regular fullback berth. Cerney is a splendid type of the Notre Dame football player, a glutton for punishment and does not know the mean ing of defeat. His defensive and offensive prowess needs little comment for the Notre Dame fan. Cerney was one of the greatest defensive fullbacks the school has ever known. His courage and driving power gave sparkle to his offense plung ing, and by adding punting to his talents, he further augmented the versatility of the team. Harry O'Boyle Left Half-Back Harry O'Boyle of Des Moines, Iowa, proved to be the sophomore flash of the 1924 eleven. His work this fall with the. s~o~k troops is the reason so many sport followers are optimistic for next year's campaign. · O'Boyle is a member of the triple threat fraternity al th?ugh he w~s not called upon to exercise many of his talents this fall.. His spee~ however cqmbined with his stocky build makes him. an elusive ball-carrier and a hard man to· bring d~wn once m the open. He has two more years of competition With the Gold and Blue. · Richard Hanousek Ri~ht Guard Richard Hanousek, of Antigo, Wisconsin, was one of the ~tars of. the f~·eshman team of 1923, and alternated with Kizer m the lme this year, performing his duties with the snap of completeness. Hanousek was another member of the shock troop band and with many of his team-mates who started on the freshman eleven of 1923, will form the inner workings of the team of 1925. Hanousek played at fullback in his prep school days, ~ut Rockne found better use or him as a guard, as he fitted mto the Notre Dame system of football with ease. His strengt~, his aggressiveness .{lnd naturai football ability have made him a valuable player. ______::;._ ... --i I Page 18 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Charles Glueckert Left Guard Charles Glueckert of South Bend, has served three years in the ~otre Dame line, and although his labors did not net him a letter until this year, the team was satisfied to know that he was there. He performed hj~ work in excellent style and in silence, very little credit ever coming to him for his playing. Glueckert's name can be inscribed on that long role of Notre Dame's athletes who went out and gave their best and took their measure of satisfaction in knowing that they were working for Notre Dame. Rex Enright Full-Back Rex Enright of Rockford, Illinois, remained out of compe tition this year because of injuries. He will return in 1925 to complete his course in law. Enright has already served two years with the Fighting Irish and has proven himself to be a fullback of merit. His weight and speed and a large quantity of natural ability make him a player of exceptional worth. August Stange Lett Tackle August Stange was absent from the 1924 football team due to an injury which lingered with him from the season of 1923. Undergoing an operation early in the season unfitted him for active service this year, but he will be back next year for his senior year of competition. Stange was both a depend able lineman and a punter. His we.ll proportioned build made a good vehicle for all the natural aggressiveness he possessed. Max Houser Left Half-Back Max Houser, the player who staged a brilliant comeback against Nebraska in 1923, played his first year of college foot ball with Lafayette university. In eastern gridiron circles Houser gained a wide reputation. Since coming to Notre Dame, he has found himself in particularly fast company to which he soon adapted himself. Like so many other backs on the Notre Dame eleven, he served in shifts and served well. Houser is a passer and a punter as well_ as a ball carrier. 1924 F007"BALL REVIEW Paqe 19 Joe Harmon Center Joe Harmon of Indianap_olis, the peppery pivot man .who trained faithfully for two years on the Notre Dame football team, before he finally got his ch.ance, completes a year of gal lant service with the Pasedena game. When Walsh was in jured at the Army, Harmon and Maxwell took up the burden and at Princeton and Georgia Tech, played wonderful foot ball. Harmon will be lost to the team for next year. ~- ·- .·--~.. ~~..•.. ;] Wilbur Eaton il Ri~ht End Two years of hard work with the varsity squad brought .Wilbur Eaton of Omaha, Nebraska, to the ranks of the foot ball lettermen this fall. His incomparable fighting spirit and determination to stick to it, made Eaton one of the most val uable men on the squad. He served as understudy to liunsin- /g~r and with Crowe, made the going around the flanlg> rather perilous for the opposition. John McMullen Left Tackle After coming from Chicago, where he made a reputation in high school football, John McMullen was kept from the front ranks only by the force of more experienced material be fore him. His hard work and determination to carry out the instructions of his coach won for him a place in the shock troops division and McMullen will be welcomed back for next year's campaign. John Roach Half..Back Certain sport critics were won·t to ask, "Where does Rockne get such material," as they watched John Roach of Appleton, Wisconsin reel off a couple of 35..;yard runs and incidently score a to~chdown. After hobnobbing with the "Four Horse men" for a season, Roach came out this year and registered some sterling work, indicating that what he will do next year will have no restrictions. -_ --·-·-···-·--1. ----·.:.-- -~~-····-··· ·-- l J 'i Page 20 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Joseph Maxwell Gene Edwards Center Quarterback Gene "Red" Edwards, of Weston, W. Va., One of the most promising gridders to come former Kiski star and the quarterback find of to light during the season just closed was Joe the 1924 season is undoubtedly slated to be Maxwell of Philadelphia. Maxwell learned the Notre Dame Napoleon .of the next two years. his football under Stan Cofall, former Notre The slimly built pilot is the sphinx of the Dame star, and in his first year of· varsity eleven, but 'his silence portends more than a competition at Notre Dame, played a large part lack of noise. His work during the past season . in the season's triumphs. Maxwell is pos has been excellent. He has two more years of sessed of a· world of natural ability and foot competition. ball sense and is also an excellent snapper back. Maxwell has two more years with the varsity. _ Joseph Boland Left Tackle Joe Boland is also from Philadelphia, and Herb Eggert like Maxwell he played football under the Right Guard tutelage of Cofall. Boland's weight and fight ing qualities mar;Ie him a valuable gridder in Herb Eggert is a Chicago boy who is just the shock troop's brigade. Time after time the completing his se_cond year of service with the opposition found it tough going when they tried RockmEm. Eggert was listed with the shock to send plays through Boland. He has two troops this fall, and served· with distinction more years of varsity competition. when called upon to play. During the practice drills· this fall, he showed much promise and.· Rockne drilled hip1 constantly until he was able Gerald Miller to hold down the guard berth in major games. He will be back with the squad next fall. Right Halfback Gerry Miller, ~ brother to Don Miller, imi- . tated his. brothers before him, giving his best for Notre Dame. Gerry, however, lacks the Vincent Harrington weight for stardom. Gerry is a Notre Dame Right .·Guard . football man, playing the game hard and clean. Vincent Harri~gton of Souix City, Iowa, is the gridder, press correspondents like to tell .Joe Rigali about; the man who makes every trip and until . the 1924 season, Jtad played only thirty seconds Right_ End in a major game. Harrington however was . Joe Rigaii · is another· Chicago product who made of the stuff that Rockne knew would hold came to Notre Dame intent upon trying out up under terrific punishment and when he was for backfield berth. Rockne, b.u.wever, made a called upon to serve, he . fulfilled his assign wi'ngman of him and sent him into the firing ment with everything he had. Harrington will line several times during the past season. Ri be lost to the squad at graduation. gali responded with excellent work. He is not large in stature but he is a fighter and knows the game. Frank Reese Quarterback John Wallace After a career of ups and downs, during Right Tackle which time frequent injuries greatly handi . John Wallace of Gary, Indiana, another of capped him, Fra11k Reese, of Robinson, Illinois, Rockne's shock troops, will be back with the · completes his atl_lletic career with the nation squad again next year, after having served ·two al football cl)ampions. It has not been his for years in the line. Wallace like many of the tune to be the inspiration of football poets, other gridders was forced to compete with nor direct a great team to sensational vic- · players of more experience. His football abili tory, but Reese 11as played his part and played ties have not been wasted during his days of it well. Frank }}as generously· given of his apprenticeship and his presence on the 1925 ability to assist in his team's great triumphs. squad will be welcome. 192.4 FOOTBALL REVIEW Page 2.1 ~ I i I I I I I 1 I G.eor~e Gipp I 4 'The wind bites sharply now the chalk-lined grass, I I But, hid blj night I see a phantom pass From phantom hands, that we once, dearltj, knew, i ·Caught btj still dimmer hands, known, too, l Plavedfor.Our Ladlj, as in life thetj plaved, And she applauds, and the frail phantoms fade. Gerald Holland : [ ·" ::-.-. ~-·~ ...... - -- -- __ _,._ ~- . l . -·-·· .:_. __ _.: -·-"'··------_: # I i I i "I I YOUR TEAM Harrlj A. McGuire What is the team to you? Is it somethin~ to bet on? You'll bet upon.the time 1t takes a four-le~~ed brute to paw. around a track! · . Is it somethin~ to boast of at home? That means nothin~ - you'll boast about the make of car your father's money bou~ht! Is it a thin~ to sin~ a,.bout over the cups? No honor there you'll sin~ about a~~ravatin' papa and that red- headed ~al five minutes l l~ed · Is it somethin~ ~ood .to look at? So is Valentino if his make,up is ~ood! Is it somethin~ that affords you the opportunity for paradin~ your knowled~e of football technique? Exams offer a similar oppor, tunity, yet you dislike them, because they call your bluff! Is it somethin~ to criticize? You'll spend thirty minutes a day criticizin~ you_r. janitor! · · . Does it mean all of these thin~s to you? Let it mean all of them, and you have as yet revealed no viewpoint that sheds credit upon you. · For to Notre Dame men their team is somethin~ vital. It stands in their estimation as the in~arnation of the ~lor~es and. the trials, the final triumphs and the inevitable defeats of their school. It apotheosizes in their mi_nds the ideals of Notre Dame - as it crouches there on the·field it is to them the spirit of Notre Dame itself, hoary with years but youn~, defeated but never beaten; viCtor ious but never victor~ stron~ with the stren~th of war but delicate as a flower ·and ~entle as a ~irl. They see in that mi~hty spirit the hands that have built the .walls. of Notre Dame, the minds that have slaved upon its problems, the lips that have prayed for the school andtfor them. In that spirit they find the souls· of the saints who have drud~ed that they mi~ht live life to the full, and the souls of lon~-for~otten men who .fou~ht ori the field in blood ·that Notre Dame mi~ht have a ~ood tradition. · And they find in that spirit a coura~e and self-sacrifice,· a love of ~ood and scorn for evil that God and His human Mother lend·to the armies ofNotre Dame. -That's what their team means to Notre Dame men! z:re,- ·-· ~.,- .. - ____ ;t: __ -- - - -~------. - ... -~·-.:...------~ -· . 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Paqe 23 _ ...... ,, Page 24 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Notre Dame 40 Lombard 0 October 4 was a typical mid-summer day, and too warm for football. Not a breath of air was stirring that afternoon when Notre Dame's squad of seventy-seven warriors trotted onto Cartier Field for the first game of the season. Lombard ap peared shortly thereafter, and an interested football world waited to learn whether there was truth in the reports that the 192•1 Notre Dame machine was bigger and better than ever. Lombard students were on hand, three hundred strong, and Notre Dame's cohorts thronged the cast stands. The whistle blew and the season had officially begun. As usual, "Rock" started his "shock troops," who held Lombard even· for the first ten minutes. In the middle of the opening quarter a signal was given, and the entire first team pranced out to relieve the substitutes. Thenceforth the game was .just a question of how well the sturdy Lombard defense could stop the charges of the Irish backs. The Four Horsemen were the fleet backs of yore, and O'Boyle and Connell typified the capability of the shock troops by dashes of 50 and 57 yards respectively. The losers were sadly handicapped by the serious injury of Cap~. Lamb, their brilliant little quarterback, who had done much to prevent a larger score. This game proved Notre Dame's remarkable reserve strength and a toll of six touchdowns gave rough evidences of the driving attack that later foes were to expect. The Lombard team provided far sturdier opposition than the score would seem to indicate. Captain Lamb of Lombard and his teammates presented a well drilled and flashy organization, but they were encountering the country's greatest and were unequal to the task of stopping the team which was later to conquer the football world. AROUND THE END IN THE LOMBARD GAME ~-·------·~-·------· =. 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Paqe 25 "Notre Dam~ too Husky; Lombard Loses by 40 to 0" Chicago Sunday Tribune. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 4.-(Special.) up the East last year and then went to Nebras Lombard and Notre Dame played four quarters ka, where men are men. The Cornhuskers of listless football here today in the opening were supposed to be a lot of stump pullers and game of the 1~24 season, Notre Dame winning, crop gatherers who were pretty good in a ten 40 to 0. Sensational runs ranging from 25 to acre lot if you let them pick their favorite grip. 65 yards added ~ dash of color to the contest The big boys fro!Jl the corn belt bobbed their at various stages and were responsible for the whiskers, took a reef in "their suspenders and majority of Notre Dame's points. bounced Notre Dame over the terrain. It was · Lamb, captain a11d star quarterback for a tough finish to a beutiful season. . Lombard, was c~rried from the field early in Notre Dame is chewing up the East again the second perioq with a fractured collar bone, this year. They cashed a big check in West. sustained when he was tackled in open field by Point, and also sold Princeton a bill of goods. Bella, Notre Dame end. Lamb's removal from But they still have to play Nebraska. the game had . a notice- able effect on the Lorn- bards' attack and the visit- ON THE SPORT TRAIL ors were practically help (By Fred J. Bendel.) less after his injury. Notre Dame men may Don Miller scored twice come and Notre Dame men for Notre Dame at the out may go and Garbisch of set of the second quarter Army may play forever, on end runs. Connell un but Notre Dame men of all corked a 60 yard run for time will recall with the a touchdown in the third, same thrill of pride and and O'Boyle, a sophomore ·joy that Yale recall, Ted half, broke away for a Coy, Harvard members pair of 50 yard sprints in Brickley and Mahon and t h e concluding period. Princeton eulogizes Poe Lombard outplayed t h e the name of Ad.am Walsh, second team R o c k n e captain and star center of started and began early in the Notr~ Dame football the contest to open up squad. · 1 their aerial game. Many passes . were completed, Notre Dame men will ·1 thrill with pride when they but none of them were remember how this same I good for more than 3 Walsh outplayed Garbisch I yards. and a few were. com hailed by many as an All I pleted for losses. American · center,· again I yesterday, just as the same Joe· Williams relates: Walsh did ·a year ago. ' Mr. Rockne may not be The Army massed its the greatest tutor of pigs- bulky power at center or kin logic in the tax-ridden universe, but if he near the middle of the line and Walsh was the I isn't sapphires Il).ake undesirable jewelry· and man who stopped t.he charge many and many snowdrifts are fille things to use for fuel. times. The Notre ·Dame men had the ball and l Mr. Rockne is the ·kind of coach who can Walsh was the man who gave superb interfer take eleven unfilled uniforms, in fairly present ence. The Army launched a forward pass in able condition, ap.d make Walt~r Camp break the closing moments of the game and· it was 1 down and sob, "Enough, Enough!" the punch drunk Walsh who outguessed the I MoraC victories are something which are not Army quarterback and .was right at the spot at· 4 tolerated in the Rockne scheme. The Fight which the pass was aimed. ing Irish, including the Stuhldrehers, the It was Walsh who took two men. out in in I Bachs, and the Hunsingers, are sent out to terference. as prettily timed as a . "military I return with ·their head-guards or in them. maneuver, allowing Crowley to ·flash by·the last I· ' This is the era of the electric light, yet a outposts of the Army defense in his sensational lot of Rockne's ri.vals are still reading the rules sprint for nearly half the length of the field. I ~nder the glare ~f a kerosene lamp. Twice .the tangled masses of humanity on the gridiron at the Polo Grounds was torn ' "Bugs" Baer said after the Easter invasions: apart to reveal Walsh · to all appearances The Notre Dame football army has been go stretched o_ut cold on the ground. But. each ing through· the East like a worm through a ·time he was lifted to his· feet and like a terrier tunnel. This is probably the toughest collec he shook off the ·stunning effect of the pound I tion of militia gathered together since those ing he was receiving. Minute Boys drilled up around Lexington. It was a superb Notre Dame team that won Yet Notre Dame is not happy. They cleaned · and a great Army team that lost. ~~:... • • '~ - " • ' • - ~ • • -~ • c. • • - ~ ' • ~. - • Page 26 ·1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Notre Dame 34 Wabash 0 \V arming to the task of going through the hard season before them, the battling Irish outfit ran rough-shod over the "Little Giants" of \Vabash by .a 34-0 score. Some fifteen thousand zealots saw "Rock's" lads rounding into the great grid ma chine that was to crush down teams, representing every section of the country~ The crowd also saw the b~ckfield qu.artet, which was to be heralded as one of the greatest 1 of all time, run wild over the helpless though struggling Wabash men. I It wa sthis game which aided Coach Rockne to iron out the kinks in prepara "' tion for the struggle witl~ the Army on the following Saturday. It was this game also which gave Rockne an idea of the power which lay in his reserve teams. I Occasional flashes of the brilliant performances which were to follow, were I present in ~he dashes of Jimmie Crowley, Elmer Layden and others. That perfect organization and morale was noticeable in the "Wonder Team"; perfections were to I bring it through one of the most brilliant saesons ever enjoyed by any_grid outfit. I The ·vVabash game was the initial appearance of one of the greatest little gen erals of the year, Harry Stuhldreher, who was _to lead his famous backfield mates 1 through one of the most glorious seasons ever enjoyed by a Notre Dame team~ And he was not long in displaying his marvelous abilities, which were to earn for him the I the appellation "Napoleon of the Gridiron."· iI The \Vabash victory created a feeling of optimism on the Notre Dame campus. This optimism, well-seasoned with "Rock's" pessimistic "show me" attitude, fur ! i nished a perfect atmosphere for tllC tea~'s battle with the Army tl~e following Satur- \ day afternoon. · I I I ) ....I l I l I I I I l LAYDEN PUNTS. I I I· I I I I 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Page 27 ''Notre Dame is Monarch of All American Grid'' By DAvis J. WALSH, Cleveland News. Remove the tin foil and tissue paper wrap From Mr. Batchelor's Article in the ping, waft a handful of dust over the collection "Detroit Saturday Night." and present the corsage of American beauties to Notre Dame university. For the first time these many years, we have an unchallenged · No printed word can begin to convey an idea national champion of collegiate football and of the speed, the precision and the power of Notre Dame is it. One can no more go behind this (Notre Da111e~s backfield. Imagine two the records than one can go behind the nape Granges, a Friedman and Lidberg placed on of his neck, and the . records show the Irish to be the only undefeated and untied football the same team. Imagine them . trained to team of any conseguence between the two gether for three y~ars so that they could go oceans. through their plays in the dark, standing on Darmouth has as sound a record as any their heads, or · left-handed. Imagine them team in eastern football. drilled daily by a football Yet Dartmouth was tied by genius whose plays would Yale, which in turn was make crossword puzzles tied by West Point, which s e e m childishly' simple. lost to Notre Dame. Yale, Then imagine them geared another unbeaten eastern up to the speed shown by team, is eliminated from the participants in a slap national consideration by stick movie comedy, and the same equation. you will have some idea Pennsylvania's r e c o r d of "The ·Four Horsemen." alike is untarnished by de It is not only the greatest feat. But Penn was tied backfield of today, but by Penn State, which was probably. the greatest that beaten by Georgia Tech, the modern game ·of foot which lost to Notre . Dame. ball has produced." So much for the east. It is a question whether The middlewest has Chi four other men could be cago as champion of its picked from the entire Big· Ten conference, but country and drilled to the Stagg entry lost its ·such. efficiency in .a single opening game to Missouri season. Certainly if the and was tied by Ohio State All-American "team ever and Wisconsin, which lost existed for playing pur to Notre Dame. poses instead of for argu And what of Missouri? ment among the fans it .It was beaten by Nebraska, would get much better re which disposed of Kansas .sults from this perfect-fit before coming to South ting smooth-working com Bend to lose to Notre bination of Rockne's than Dame. That would seem to eliminate the from any quartet that 'Valter Camp will pick. Missouri valley ~onference in toto, as far as These ~ay not be the four best backs in the N otr~ Dame is Goncerned. country individually, but collectively the yare The southern c_hampion is Centre college, be in a class by themselves. Notre Dame is cause of its victory over Alabama and Georgia. doubly proud of them, too, because they are But the Colonels finished second to West Vir "home grown." 'rhe South Bend institution ginia, which lost to Pittsburgh, which lost. to does not seem to be able to offer the induce Carnegie Tech, which lost to Notre Dame. ments to great stars of the preparory school This far,· the cycle of elimination is perfect. ranks that some of the other colleges do and It leads to South Bend, Ind. for its climax in she doesn't get many of them. So Rockne has every case. to "raise them from pups." The only break in the continuity is found · on the far coast,· which has had no contest to GREATEST MODERN BACKFIELD date with football· as played in the middle west and south. Perry Lewis, Phila.delphia ·Inquirer. The champions_hip team of the coast confer Here are four men who function together ence is Leland Stanford. It might be · the like a piece ·of well-oiled machinery. Their greatest team in the world, at that, but your team \vork is superb. Their individual bril supply of rhetoric fails before you can con liance dazzling. There isn't a department of vince a Californian that this is fact~ not fancy. backfield play at which they do not excel, and California. and Stanford played a 20 to 20 tie working behind a line· which knows its business, i, ... in their firial game, so that Stanford's title is by they are omnipotent. It is a wondrous football :i -· . ~ no means conclusive. machine which Rockne has c~·eated. •11:·'·,._ ·. r_ .: - Page 28 1924 FOO?:BA~REVIEW Notre Dame 13 Army 7 Again the "Fighting Irish" swept out of the Vvest to meet their traditional foe of the Plains. ·But this time the scene of the battle was set not on the majestic "Storm King" but down at "Coogan's Bluff," before sixty thousand frenzied rooters. The first quarter consisted mostly of an even punting duel between Wood of the Army and Elmer Layden who had replaced Cerney at full-back. In the second quarter the sixty thousand spectators were brought to their feet by the consistent attack of the Rockmen. . Getting possession of the baij. on their fifteen yard line," Stuhldrchcr, Crowley, :Miller and Layden showed that they warranted all the praise and admiration heaped upon them. Jimmie rounded the end for twenty yards; then Don cut loose with eleven more. Harry shot a pass to Crowley which. ~ctted twelve yards. And while Grantland Rice, perched in the press boxes, was having the great idea of the "Four Horsemen", Stuhldreher, Layden, Crowley and :Miller did every thing a backfield could possibly do, and did it perfectly. Laygen went over for the first touchdown and the quarter en.ded with the score: N otrc Dame 6; Army 0. In the third quarter, Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death, or rather, Stuhldrchcr, Layden, Crowley and :Miller, again fell upon the eleven Army men and Crowley went over for another touch-down. The period ended: Notre Dame 13; :,'1 I' Army 0. During the fourth quarter, .\Vilson of the Army got away for a 45 yard run· but the Army attacy promptly fizzled. Wood punted to Notre Dame's ten yard line. Layden punted out· of danger but the Irish were penalized fifteen yards. A clever bit. of strategy by the Army enabled Harding, the Cadet quater back, to cross· the Notre Dame goal. The gam~ ended with the score: Notre Dame 13; Army 7. The 1924 Army team is worthy of the greatest praise.. ·"Fighting and danger ous to the very end," our own heroes said. j l I. I ;·I I • ! l I I I I I RUNNING THE ARMY ENDS I !'I .I i ,I 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Page 29 "Notre Dame Eleven Defeats Army" New Y orlc Times. Moving with speed, power and precision, orite weapon sheathed in the scabbard. Not Knute .Rockne's Notre Dame 'football machine, more than a half dozen times during the game 1924 model, defeated the Army, 13 to 7, be- did he strike \vith his forward pass attack. In fore 60,000 at t]:le Polo Grounds yesterday. stead, he met the soldiers on their own ground The Hoosiers scored a. touchdown in the sec- -the level terra firma. With a relentless drive ond period and another in the third, and the he attacked the wings, the tackles and the cen Army's only rebuttal was a touchdown shortly ter of the Army's line. The cadets, prepared after the fourth yeriod had begun. But at that for a stiff aerial bombardment, were unpre late hour the soldiers were tired and battered, pared for this offensive, and it was npt until and the machine went on to \vin. the fourth period that they learned the trick West Point pluck against Notre Dame's rna- of stopping the t\visting, elusive, smashing at chine was a one-sided proposition, and it was · tack put on by one of the best backfields in the a clean-cut victory. An epic might be written country. For three periods Miller, Crowley, about the Army's brave Layden and Stuhldreher stand and gallant counter- .--~------...;..._-----. . ripped and t o r e an d attack in the final-qua~ter; swooped, and when the but after all it was Notre ( cadets finally checked the _Dame which had the speed, apt. AdtH\"\Wols·h cov.ldn•t grinding machine it was the deception, the decisive h~"e. be.e.n K~ rt do~'"' in too late. punch and, to boot, the. 1:. he. Arm'\ ~a 11\e e"'e"' if he * * * * coaching genius of Knute had be e."' c.\-!. a it\ e d o It :was a game designed Rockne. _ · to please the fancy of If an epic could be writ every sort of football fol ten about the Army, there lower. For the students was also material for sev of the gridiron there was a eral poems in the swift, rare display of football de dashing play of the men ception and speed in Notre from I n d i a n a . Notre Dame's \Veil-balanced at Dame's backfield attack tack; for · the casual fol had some of the poetry of lower there was an eye motion about it. Launched filling sight in the fleet from well-concealed and dashes of Crowley and Mil deceptive positions, i t · ler and Harry Wilson swept the · Army flanks, around the far-flung flanks. darted outside· and inside And for the lover of spec the tackles and tore jagged tacles there was - a touch holes in the line. When of life and color in the Miller, Crowley and Stuhl . vastness of the crowd, in dreher took the ball and the· picture of the flag started around the end, draped horseshoe and in they ran like men inspired. the Cadet Corps maneu On a reduced scale the vers before the game. contest was· another Army-Navy game. Next to the crowd that·· attended last year's service classic at the Polo Grounds, the throng was the HAIL TO ROCKNE biggest in New York football history. Nearly A rousing reception is scheduled for Coach every seat· was filled. K. K. Rockne and his conquerors of the Army It was also one of the most notable of grid- mule when the victory-flushed Irish footballers iron, gatherings. In addition to Secretary of climb off .the rattler at the New York Central War Weeks, Major Gen. Robert Lee Bullard station Sunday afternoon at 5:22 o'clock. and other distinguished army officers, Dr. Hugo The entire Notre Dame student body, headed Eckener, commander of the ZR-3, watched· by the univel;'sity band, will_ -be on· hand to ex what was probably his first American football tend·. the glad hand_to .the ·returning heroes game. - In the company of. Secretary \Veeks, and to parade ·them through the center of town. -the commander of the history-making ze-ppelin Cheer Leader Eddie Luther, who accompanied walked twice around the field in the -third and the team to New York and who led the Notre fourth period. · Dame cheering_ section at the Polo · grounds There were hearty cheers for Secretary yesterday, will direct the parade and lead the Weeks and thousands stood and craned their student body in cheers for the victorious Gold necks, but ·few recognized the megium-built and Blue. man- in a quiet suit of dark blue, his blond head . Notre Dame alumni in New York city will bared, who walked \vith the Secretary. fete the triumphant Irish laddybucks to-night, but it is expected that Rockne and his preteges If Dr. Eckener came to see Notre Dame win \vill depart from Gotham early .Sunday morn- through the air, Ire 'was ·disappointed.-- So~·\vere ----ing. ··The· .exact ·tinie of' their iu·rival -has not 60,000 others, for. Coach :Rockne _kept his~ fav- be~n- ascertained. _ __ · - . ·. '~. ~ . - ·. .-... Page 30 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Notre Dame 12 Princeton ~ 0 To twist the Tiger's tail is a coveted privilege among the major football teams. of the country, especially outside of the New England states. The 12-0 score did not represent the respective margin of ability. Crowley was the star of the game, running wild for two touchdowns and gaining 250 yards during the afternoon. It was a great game. Notre Dame seemed to be able to gain at will and for a second time the Fighting Irish trimmed Princeton. The Tiger was never once within 30 yards of the Blue and Gold goal line. The Princeton victory gave Notre Dame the second "double win" in the East; the publicity from it is still running the gamut among Eastern sports writers. The Tiger always furnishes strong, colorful opposition. October 25 was a great day for the Irish. They were truly "Rockets"; they sailed through the air for passes, sped with sho,vers of sparks along the Princeton turf, leaving behind them a trail of brilliant fire· and smoke. The Four Horsemen again won the name given to them by Grantland Rice the Saturday previous. There were many stars in the Princeton game who did not gallop but did every thing else. \Veibel and Kizer demonstrated that it was not all backfield that did the work. And the slashing ;work of Bach and Rip :Miller did not go un~oticed. It '\vas C~liefly due to their efficient line-work that Crowley was able to slip through the slits . in the rampart for the large gains. A crowd of 45,000 ·crowded Palmer stadium at Princeton to see the "comet" flash. The Irish crashed for twenty,-three first downs to four for the Tiger's. CROWLEY MAKES TWENTY-FIVE YARDS AROUND PRINCETON'S END 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Paqe 81 "Great Nassau Tiger Snared" By DAVIS J. \VALSH, New Yorlc Times .. PRINCETON, N. J., . Oct. 25.-The p.en, ried the ball l}.lmost the length of the field on they say, is mightier than the sword and this no less than four occasions. afternoon Notre Dame proved that the rapier has it all over the blunderbus when it defeated Two of them resulted in touchdowns, a third Princeton for the secondtime in as many years. was ruled out by a penalty and Crowley's fum The score was only 12 to 0, but it did not rep ble on the nine-yard line prevented a fourth. resent the respective abilities of these two It was a very natty. exhibition for a team football teams a_ny more than arsenic repre that was outweighed about 20 pounds to the sents a toothsome dish. individual man, that going for the defense as well as the attack. Princeton, in the first place, had no Crow ley. He was to Notre Dame what the point is Incidentally, the defense was tested even to the rapier and his lightning thrusts off though. Princeton didn't theaten but merely tackle simply knifed the Princeton defense in threatened to threaten. to smithers. Crowley made the two (Special Dispatch to The World). official touchdowns, and PRINCETON, Oct. 25- added a n o t h e r which Wow, wow, wow, wow! b e c a m e strictly u n - Better move ·along official, not to say out of Col\ i ns ~ r.J Hun ~ in 9 e~ 1: r j to When you hear the Tiger order, when a Notre Dame dote out how Pr-incei"o"' lV\<:!d~ sing man was detected holding. -thr-ee 't~'r~S ~n·ouhd -\h_e. endso His jungle song. In all, Crowley pro9ably The words above, boom- gained 250 yards as a per- ing from the Princeton sonal contribution to the stands at Palmer Stadium cause. Many a Tiger claw today, reached the ears of was laid upon him as he Knute Rockne's skyrocket shifted outside tackle for backs, Crowley, Miller and runs ranging from five to Layden. 35 yards but a Tiger claw "Great stuff," said they, may scratch but it never individually and collective was known for its ability ly, "left's go;" and move ... to retain its hold on a two along they did, twisting i legged, sprinting eel that ! turning, breaking out of seemed to be afflicted with the grasps of Princeton the buck jumps. tacklers time and again, to Certainly no single claw beat the Tigers 12 to 0 and was able to stop Crowley shatter the Tigers' dream today for .any appreciable of revenge for l~~t year's part of a tenth of a second. 25 to 2 defeat. Princeton was lucky that He was at once the the score was not t\vice as power, the speed, the grace much. · ! ·and the agility of the en- · . i tire Notre Dame attack. Layden kicked in' with . This ·was. no sluggish, many ·a short gain through the line, occasion poorly eqmpped Navy team that. the· jungle 1 ally Don Miller broke loose around the end and c~ts we~e up ag?inst, . ~ut a first class, splen I every so often . Stuhldreher wafted a forward didly drilled and conditioned aggregation with I pass into the arms of a Notre Dame receiver, a consistent running attack"built on speed and but on the wh9le- it was Crowley and no other deception carried out by a quartet of chain ~ who beat Princet.on today. lightning backs who ~ould not be stopped. i It was he who sent even the Princeton sec ~rinceton had no chance to pull any psycho tion of the 40,000 crowd wending its dazed logical stuff, for Notre Dame refused to err I way back into town, muttering and shaking its . and. the Tigers lacked the continuity of offense befuddled head, but ready to grarit that it had to put her in a p9sition to strike with the pass witnessed a master performance· by a ·master ing gam_e which went so well against the Navy. I workman. As for their own team, little could Three first downs by rushing was all she be said beyond the fact that it went down fight could earn today while her opponents were pil- ing. But a blunderbus is hardly to be classed ing up 14. · as a modern \Ve.apon. Princeton was anything but modern today. It had no real running at Rockne started a complete substitute line tack or else it was that Notre Dame's defense up to save his battered regulars as much as was too good. In any case it is a matter of possible. The s~bs held Princeton even for a record that Princeton never once advanced period, and then came the regulars. The pres within the 30-yard line while ~otre J?ame car- sure was applied at once. Page 8.2 19.24 FOOTBALL REVIEW ======Notre Dame 84 Georgia Tech 8 The "Golden Tornado" of Georgia Tech bowed to Notre Dame before one of . the largest and most colorful Homecoming crowds ever to witness a struggle on. Car-: tier Field. The "Wonder Team", fresh from its Eastern triumphs, ran. wild ·over the Georgia Tech team for a 3<1-3 win. The mighty vVycoff and his mates fouglit as do always these valiants from the south, but when the great backfiel~ swung into action, even without the generalship <>f Harry Stuldreher who was injured in the Princeton game, the Yellow Jackets were buried in an avalanche of scores.. Crowley, l\Iiller and Layden, collectively, played one of the best games of the season. · First one, then the other and steadily, brilliantly, the ball was advanced down the ·field to the Tech goal. Georgia Tech struggled desperately ti1at afternoon to dim Rockne's hopes, and ·never once gave up their hopeless task. Even in the final seconds of play 'Vycoff· made a beautiful effort only to have a hurtling blue form end it as quickly as it had begun. A conquering Notre Dame teall} was playing before a Homecoming crowd, .a crowd typifying the magnificent-spirit which was carrying the team onward to. an undefeated season. · · It was another sectional triumph for the Rockmen; another victory, which made possible for the sport scribes the later choice of National Champions. In this victory, the line performed brilliantly, the work of Rip Miller, 'Veibel .a.nd Walsh being espeCially good. The "shock troops," which carried a great part of ±he burden of the game, played well_, with Roach, Eaton and Livergood meriting ·especial·praise. ! ·Notre Dame plays no better sports_men than the .men from Georgia Tech, and !" Jooks forward to welcoming to Cartier Field many times in the future, the· "Southern ·Gentlemen." · ·, .. ·~ J. Three Geor2ia Tech Men Stop Don Miller. Note the Flying Tackle. ' . '. . ·.: .. 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Page 83 "Notre .Dame is 84-S Victor Over Golden Tornado" Chicago Sunda.11 Tribune. · .SOUTH. BEND, Ind., Nov. 1.-Sensational eral times during the third and fourth periods runs by Douglas Wycoff of Georgia Tech, full Notre Dame marched down within ·striking dis back, and Notre Dame's squad of back field tance of Tech's goal only to have the South stars featured Notre Dame's 34 to 3 victory erners brace and hold for downs. ·w ycoff led over the southerners in the annual homecoming his team in every play, being the king-pin on game here today. Approximately 17,000 per- both offense and defense. . sons sa\v the Irish machine in its first home ap Notre Dame played the entire game without pearance since its triumphant conquest in the the services of Stuhldreher, quarterback ex east. · traordinary, who was injured at Princeton -last Georgia Tech took advantage of. the Notre week. Edwards and Scharer, both playing their · Dame seconds early in the first period, and Wy first season of varsity football, gave plausible coff promptly ran through the bewildered Rock accounts of themselves in the absence of men for 40 yards, ·placing the ball on Notre Stuhldreher. · Dame's. 35 yard line. A Edwards p 1 a y e d the se1·ies of line bucks netted greatest part of . the game a few . yards, .and on the with the varsity outfit, crucial third · down Will while Scharer guided the iams· place-kicked 42 yards seconds in their campaign·. for his. team's 3 · points. . It was a great day for Tech threatened again substitutes. Roach an d in the : closing minutes of Connell, two half iJacks the game when .Barron with a reputation f o r fumbled Reese's ·punt in speed, cut out a number of midfield and Wycoff re nice gains,· affording a covered, running to Notre series of spectacular runs Dame's 1 yard line before to the afternoon's enter being overtaken by Cough tainment. Connell played lin, a substitute halfback.. the great part of the game Time was called before and was one of the most i .. : Tech could line up for the consistent ground gainers next · play. Notre Dame used by Rockne. had trouble getting started Tech appeared weak in against: the dogged defense the right side of 'their line of the southerners in· the all during the· third and first quarter. Wycoff led fourth periods, Livergood the· Tech offense in a spir assaulting this sector with ited attack and pushed the amazing results throughout seconds . back down the the half. Livergood was field .time and time again. Quoyte:tte. the one man who gained on At the start of the sec-· every: play against the ond period Rockne sent his Southerner's defense. His first string into the game, · runs of 10 and 20 yards pressing the injured Adam Walsh into service figured prominently in the scoring of the last in an· attempt to stop the rushes of Wycoff and two touchdowns. his teammates. rh.e varsity offense directed by Edwards Ford C. Frick Says: soon got under way and _started one of its Sing a song of Notre Dame · famous marches down the gridiron. Don Mil Shout their praises wide, ' ler, made 35 yards around left end; Crowley Tell of Crowley' sturdy might hit right tackle for 16, and Cerney made 7· Sing of Layden's stride.. · ' through the center. Tech brace.d when Notre Spread the news of Miller's speed Dame had pushed it into the shadow of · its Speak of Walsh's game, ' own goal posts and with fourth down on Tech's Fighters of the bulldog breed~ 11 yard ·line; Crowley passed to Don Miller Her~'s to Noti·e Dame! behind the goal line fo1; Notre Dame's first But-.. score. · When you've finis_hed all· thut, ladies and A · similai· .play in the fourth quarter with gentlemen; when you have lauded the. prowess Scharer passing to Roach was good for a simi of Layden and Crowley and Miller· when lar gain :and ·a touchdown. Roach made one you've told of the wizardry of Rockne a~d sung of Notre Dame's touchdowns in the second the laudations of a line that· wouldn't be quarter on a line buck from. the 3-yard. line turned.. after ·he had ·circled the visitors' left end for . When you've done all that, then it's time to 45 yards: · rise to your f~et, every durn one of you and do.ff. your hats and spend one silent mom~nt in . Tech played a hard game of football show tribute to the greatest of them all r . ing. a gri~ determination in the pinches. Sev- That's little, tow-headed Harry Stuhldreher! ···;,;-:.-. -~------~~----=---;_-=~: __ : ·::.. ------=------··-·· -~..:.. ___:._ - THE LARGEST CROWD EVER PACKED INTO CARTIER FIELD, STANDING WHILE THE NOTRE DAME BAND PLAYS ·THE VICTORY MARCH BETWEEN THE HALVES AT THE NEBRASKA GAME. 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Page 35 Notre Dame's First Football Team In ·1887 Left to right, bottom row-Harry :M. Jewett, right halfback; J. E. Cusack, quarterback; Henry B. Luhn, left halfback; Ed Prudhomme, fullback: Second row-J. L. Hepburn, right end; George Houck, right tackle; E. A. Sawkins, right guard:. Frank Fehr, center; Pat Nelson, left tackle: Gene Melady, left guard; Frank Springer, left end. In 1924 Left to right: Joseph Hepburn, of Detroit; Frank Hagen barth, of Salt Lake City; Dr. Henry B. Luhn, Spokane, Wash.; Col. Wm. Luhri, · Omaha, Nebr.; Edward Prudhomme, Bermuda, La.; George Houck, Portland, Oregon; Patrick Nelson, Dubuque, Iowa; Wm. P. McPhee, Denver; Frank Fehr, Louisville; Eugeno Melady, Jr., and Eugene 1\lelady, Sr., Omaha. The other members of the team were unable · to attend the celebration. .-.... -• ..-.•:--··· ... -.~--~ Page S6 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Notre Dame 88 Wisconsin 8 Camp Randall Stadium presented a colorful spectacle that day of November 8, when forty-thousand persons gathered to see Rockne's men make their 1924 debut against a Big Ten team. This game was the attraction for Notre Dame's annual student trip so that vVisconsin' s famous Cardinal cheering section was well matched by the large Gold and Blue· array in the opposite stands. The crack bands of Notre Dame and 'Visconsin marched onto the field and combined in alternate renditions of "On 'Visconsin" and the "Victory :March". Then the teams trotted out, ·and the demonstration that followed will not soon be forgotten by anyone who was at _Camp Randall that day. As usual, Rockne started his "shock troops", and by the end of the first quarter the score stood Wisconsin 3, Notre Dame 3, the .result of the drop-kicking accuracy of Harmon of vVisconsin and O'Boyle of Notre Dame. Then came the call, and the entire first team burst onto the field while the Notre Dame stands went into an up roar. Then the fun hegan. Crowley, :Miller, Layden, and Stuhldreher were whirlwinds that day, and· the line, from end to end, was adamant. Wisconsin fought gamely, but in vain. Light ning thrusts off tackle and sudden swerves around the ends rarely failed to gain yardage, and when the Gold and Blue ~rst team left the field Notre Dame led 31-3. The last quarter found the "shock troops" again in action and the attack was waged as furiously as before, culminating this time in a touchdown by Roach. Notre Dame was:i~vincible_in the \Visconsin game. All the men seemec;I. to have a good day; the team-play. was perfect.. The Notre Dame student body holds pleasant memories of \Visconsin University as a re·sult ··of the student trip to :Madison. .,.. ,,- •• _,!_...., ______~-· 1924 FOO'TBALL REVIEW Page 37 "Rockne Cavalry Rides Rough Shod Over Wisconsin" By JAMES CnusiNDERRY, Chicago Sunday Tribune. MADISON, Wis., Nov. 8.-(Special.) men started to ride-they were rough riders, Knute Rockne's great Notre Dame football every one of them. They simply galloped over team swamped Wisconsin this afternoon at the foe. Camp Randall, 38 to 3. Had the South Bend Wisconsin's men were left helpless upon 4.:he coach kept his cp.valry backs in the game all battlefield as Don Miller, Crowley, Layden, and the time he might have doubled the count. He Stuhldreher galloped. had them in long enough to roll up 28 points In the second period they galloped over the in about two quarters of the time. · Te rest of Cardinal uniforms for two touchdowns. They the battle was carried' on by his infantry, tho had the count,· 17 to 3 in their favor when the second, third, an~ perhaps the fourth and fifth hali ende~ . string men being on the battle front about half When the third period opened, all the cavalry time and scoring 10 points against the Badgers. was back for more galloping. They wanted to ride down the field some more before turning Wisconsin's only score came at the close of the game over again to the first period when the Badgers played their best the infantry. and crowded the Rockne The period had barely kids down almost against begun when Crowley rode their own goal line. They down the field for a 60 had a first down inside of yard gain, planting the the Notre Dame 20 yard ball on \Visconsin's 25 yard line and then Leo Harmon line; Don Miller, Layden, of the Badgers tore through and Crowley then rode for 7 yards. over the goal . line in a Right then a11d there series of most damaging Gen. Rockne called out his attacks, · and the · South cavalry. He halted the play Bend boys had the count while eleven regulars, on 24 to 3 in their favor. the bench, yanked off coats Still not satisfied, the and sweaters and pulled on horsemen took their places headgear and ran out upon for some more riding and the field to take the place fn about ten minutes, an of the young infantry. other touchdown had been Loud cheers came from the counted, Crowley going Notre Dame rooters as the c;~ over £or a score on a short horsemen galloped upon run around the Badger left the battlefield. The kids ~~~ .__ ___..__. end. Crowley had added a had scored a field goal and ' "F \ 1 · ·· point after every touch- .. were leading, 3 to 0, but T ne o u ~ ·n·Q rs e "tne"'" d \ d. . down by carefully kicking had been driven back into so':"e. ~~e.~t ~tdin9 in the. goal and the score stood their own territory. W1 s coo ~ 1 h 9 ~ 1"1'\ e • 31 to 3. It is the credit of Wis Then Gen. Rockne arose consin what happened then. from his bench and called A lanky back named McGivern was handed the off his cavalrymen. Their work was done. They ball and told to charge into those cavalrymen. ·went to their barracks. The battle was won He did and made it first down on the 11 yard and there was no doubt the infantry could hold line. The cavalry seemed about to be driven the fort.. Never did one· see so many young back. · football men rushed into battle. No one in the press stand could call them by name. It Again the Badgers charged. Three times is doubtful if Mr. Rockne himself knows more they tore into those horsemen but in the three than half o'f theiu. The program "didn't have attacks they made .only 7 yards. Then Do~le as many on the list as Mr. Rockne had in uni Harmon dropped back to his 14 yard line and form. He sent one squad in after another. booted the ball over the bar. for 3 points that Seemed as if there couldn't be that many stu tied the score. · dents in the whole South Bend school. It was the big moment of the day for the· These youngst~rs, however went out on the Wisconsin rooters. They had tied the count against Rockne's great team and they made the field and fought like tigers. They all hope to be most of it. Tremendous cheers rolled across horsemen some qay like Don Miller, Crowley, the field from the west stand where the Cardi Layden, and Stuhldreher. They wanted to nal rooters were massed. But over in the east show what they could do. stand Notre Dame's cheering throng wasn't When the gam~ ended, Notre Dame students, worried. Their c.avalry was in the fight. They led by their band, did a snake dance on the were confident Qf success. And it was only field and ·tossed their hats over the cross bars a· few minutes before they were. rewarded. at each end of the field. It looked as if there The quarter ended a tie, 3 to 3, but in the were a f~w well ·known Chicago men of celtic second periqd thqse terrible South Bend horse- origin out there romping with the students. Page 88 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Notre Dame 84 Nebraska ~ 6 A packed and colorful crowd, which combined all of the enthusiasm of hope and confidence, provided a noble stage for the Irish victory against Nebraska. Notre Dame had vengeance and a pleasant day, tilting the Nebraskans off Cartier field, 34-6. There may be games with more sensational playing, with more artistic foot ball handling, but none, past or future, will ever appeal to the heart of Notre Dame men as this game which witnessed Rockne erasing the memory of two years defeat, by trouncing the huge Cornhusker squad soundly, without apology, before a crowd of 26,000 persons, the largest crowd of fans ever gathered in the Cartier Field stands. Tickets for the, Nebraska game went like wildfire and weeks before N ovembcr 15 there was not a reserve card to be had except at the hands of scalpers. Even general admissions for standing room were snapped up like diamonds. They stood, they sat on fences, they sat on the sidelines, they hung on the stands, but they saw Rockne's "vVonder Team" douse the light of the Nebraska crew. In the first period when ~ ebraska punched through for a touchdown on a fum ble there was a big lump in the throats of Notre Dame faris-but not for long. Just as soon as the first string men swung into action it was all over with Nebraska. Look ing back, it seems like a pleasant dream, the way :Miller and Crowley swiped the ends, ran the tackles, and piled over the white chalk lines. Layden, though battered severely, kept hammering the center. of the line; \Valsh and Bach were out for clean revenge. "Chuck" Collins did not give the Nebraska halfbacks a ghost of a chance. '.;['he Nebraska game will ever live in the minds of those who saw it, as one of the greatest exhibitions of football ever given by any team in any football age. The Nebraska tie was broken, the jinx thrown off. For Notre Dame men, it was glorious .. THE FIRST TOUCH-DOWN OF THE PRINCETON GAME 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Paqe 39. "Notre Dame Soars Over Corn... Fed Nebraska" By KENNETH S. CoNN, South Bend Tribune SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 15.-Notre Dame ever turned turf .at Cartier Field, Harry Stuhl can again raise her head in rightful pride. N e dreher. So to single out any one of the lead braska is sadly outclassed, so badly beaten that ing lights of the game would be a rank injus the score of 34 to 6 fails to show the vast tice to the other three. superiority the Rockmen displayed yesterday First it was Miller circling around the ends afternoon at Cartier Field. for notable gains, then it was Crowley, and The airplane is more effective than the bat then there was Layden splitting the line with tleship. The crow can cover more territory the speed and momentum of a cannon ball. than the tortoise.. The speeding shell from a Then to top it off there was Stuhldreher to howitzer can reach its objective quicker than carry the ball or to toss the pigskin with deadly a tank. And Notre Dame is a better team accuracy into the hands of his waiting backs. than Nebraska. So much and more was proved They were all there, they were all stars and yesterday before the largest throng of alumni together they make Notre Dame the greatest and football followers that eleven in football history. ever witnessesd a classic After the backs, who al- on the local gridiron. The ways rank first due to' their 26,000 spectators saw the spectacular playing, comes football capital. of the uni the Notre Dame line. In verse · permanently located the center stood Adam in South Bend for this sea Walsh, captain of t h e son. They also· saw Rock Rockmen, and his se'ction men crowned national col- of the forward wall pre . legiate champions. Rock sented a defense that was nes' proteges won the un impregnable. His offensive deniable right to wear the playing also ranked higher purple toga and to wave than can be expected of a the football sceptre with lineman. The whole line undisputed authority. held its own against N e But what is best of all braska.. And the ends, the Rockmen avenged the well, they usually stopped defeats of .1922 and 1923. the Cornhusker backs for The victory over the Corn either no gain or _loss. huskers was the healing Possibly the most spec- salve that will completely . tacular bit of. playing oc efface the scars of those curred in the final seconds two encounters. It was not of the third quarter. It in the books for Nebraska was a play that brought to keep the Crown Prince the spectators to their feet from ascending the throne and · sent most of them three years in succession. home hoarse. Layden, ·after Yesterday was coronation slipping, thre\v the ball day at Notre Dame. . from an almost sitting po- The score does not show the vast difference sition to Crowley who sped 65 yards after re between· the Rockmen and Cornhuskers. The ceiving the pass for a touchdo.wn. · The throw Rockmen completely outclassed their opponents in itself was . remarkable and then Crowley's in every department of the game. Twenty run was a sensation. The two ·combined gave three first downs for Notre Dame as compared the privileged 26,000 an insight of the capa- to two first downs for Nebraska gave the fans bility of the Roc}fmen under stress. . ' some idea of the complete swamping the west- ern players received. · Rockne's proteges seem to· make it a· feature It was an old game. Not a single star loomed to offer· something new in the way of offensive forth from the western sky . unless Bloodgood playing in each game. · Yesterday's feature can be ranked among the celebrities for his was forward passing, and as this phase of the scooping up of Lp.yden's fumble that finally re game was originally introduced by Rockne him sulted in Nebraska's lone score ·and his spear self back in 1913 ·when a player for Notre ing a forward pass . in the last quarter which Dame. It reached its highest· development yes resulted in one of his team's first downs. Then terday against Nebraska for three of the five there was Ed Weir,. Nebraska captain, who touchdowns were due directly to overhead played a whale of a game at left tackle and heaves. was practically his whole team's ·defense on line plays. The Rockmen tried 10 forward passes, seven For Notre Dame it is a different story, a of which we}.·e successful, Nebraska tried seven vastly superior· tale. In Notre Dame's back aerial tosses, one of which was completed. field. there danced Miller, Crowley and Layden, .That just· about represents the difference be directed by the greatest field wizard that has tween. the two teams in every department. --l Page 40 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Notre Dame. 13 Northwestern (9 Notre Dame, with but two games remaining on the schedule, journeyed to Chi- cago for what was considered before the game an easy victory. A sloppy field and a Northwestern halfback named Baker caused the serenely confident Notre Dame team and student body the most interesting Saturday afternoon of the season. Thir ty-five thousand people, the largest crowd ever to witness a football game in Chicago_. crowded the Grand Park Stadium for the game. The Northwestern team, playing at th~ peak of their season's form, gave a won derful exhibition of football; however the Four Horsemen and the charging wall be fore them were not to be denied the glories of the undefeated season so nearly with in their grasp. Northwestern would have defeated most any team- in the country that afternoon but Rockne's wonderful organization could not have been. stopped by- _the 'Vrigley Building had the Chicagoans the power to throw that little construction in the way of Notre Dame's National Championship. Harry Stuhldreher per formed brilliantly; -his passes were near-perfect and his handling of tl.1e ball was flawless. Harry demonstrated to Chicago the abilities which have made him practi cally an una~imous All-American choice. The other Horsemen, though slowed up by the soggy field, ran gloriously. Among other reasons, the N orthwestcrn game will be ever famous for the his toric "crack" .made by Adam 'Valsh during the battle. Speaking to the line, com posed of :Messrs. vVeibel, Kizer, Bach, Rip Miller, Hunsinger, and Collins, he said, "Come on you ·:Mules, the Horsemen are waiting." i :.· LAYDEN PLUNGES THROUGH • ~.... • ~ l f -:. '' - ., - ~ - .. # - - r.-- . - ___ _}___~-~--~.:-~~ --~~------'·--~- 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Page 41 "Notre Dame is Forced to the Limit" By JIMMY CoRCORAN. CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 22.-Notre Dame, the the heavy going, which was not suited to the Dempsey of footbal1, almost took the windward Irish style of game, the-riders were lost. There side of a royal Purple haymaker on its educated were stretches of their noted dashing drives, chin yesterday in the Grant Park Stadium. but the finishing touch was usually missing. After a merry afternoon of mud slinging, toe Rockne, who is a sportsman as well as a great to toe socking and bitter pastiming, the 'Ram coach, refused to attribute the sluggishness of blers of Rockne were tickled to scoot off the Notre Dame to weather conditions. field on the large end of a 13 to 6 score. "Northwestern was great," King Knute said Northwestern flashed more throughout the after the scuffle. No alibis. And the game mill than any one .had ever accused them of exhibited by Northwestern surely doesn't de possessing. And the Irish showed only inter serve the af~ermath of "reasons why." mittent touches of the moving game that has The elevens skidded out on the field before made them famous throughout the country. In one of the most colorful crowds Chicago has other words, the Purple ever seen at a sporting nearly battled this famous event. It 'VqS a happy lay eleven to a standstill. out of 30,000, despite the Thistlethwaite's athletes fact that the boys and girls regard the result as a vic a r o u n d the colonnade tory, and it must be stated needed spyglasses to fol that they showed enough low the plays. ·when dusk for one. The line was dropped in toward closing mighty, battling the Notre time the ball was hardly Dame wall on even terms, discernible. while Baker and W einecke, Northwestern lost little Purple backs, hammered time in impressing the Irish the opposition and turned that it was set for battle. the e n d s for repeated The Rockne cubs were un gains. able to puncture the· Pur Mr. "Moon" Baker ple line nor were they able threatened for a time to to halt the Thistlethwaite act as presiding host at an charges. Baker touched off .Irish wake. And if he had the first bomb with his additional assistance from slanting drop kick from the his mates he might have · 35-ym;d line. A few min staged such an event. . He utes later his splendid ef was just about the whole fort from the 38-yard line, show for Northwestern. near the sideline added to · "Moon," who has a 99 the Purple determination. 44-100 per cent wallop, From then on Northwest snapped into it bright and ern went at it like a early by spinning a drop- champion. kick between ·the timbers. . The Rockne regulars, This occurred early in the first quarter. Notre after testing the turf, turned to the ·.air game, Dame· rooters merely. yawned and "ho-hum and it was a long toss, Stuhldreher . to Crow med." But when "Moon" toed another through ley, that aided in the first touchdown. This the bars shortly after Rockne rushed in the perfect execution placed the ban· on the Purple regulars, there was gnashing of teeth and 9-yard line. From here the horsemen snorted shifting of seats ~s the cry for "the horsemen" to the 2-yard line and Harry Stuhldreher sifted went up. through for a touchdown. · Northwestern broke loose in a manner that With the appearance of the regulars the tide was unfair to organized labor in the second turned Notre D~meward, and in the second half, and before the turnout realized what it quarter Stuhldreher shot across for a touch was all about, the Purple was moving down down. Crowley's boot gave the Irish a point the field for big yardage. This charge died edge. This, it was thought, was only the be when Baker missed a drop kick. ginning of another cross-country parade. As Notre Dame now snarling and desperate, set events proved, it was the only touchdown that out to do business. End runs by Crowley and the Ramblers earned during the afternoon. Mille!, an occasional sock· by Layden and a The "heads up" activity· of Elmer Layden forward pass Stuhly to Miller, brought the brought Notre Dame the second and last touch ball to the Purple 25-yard mark but the down in the fourth quarter. Layden, standing Rocknes were left on the limb. on the Purple 40-yard mark, stepped out to Notre Dame started on another stretch of spear a stray Baker pass, and then shook his activity when a forward pass, took the· ball to ten-second hoofs over the goal line. the Purple 5-yard line. Here the famous backs The horsemen made one mistake. They ·for of Rockne turned· loose all they had in a mighty got to bring their boots from South Bend. In effort, but the Nqrthwestern line held. I: I ! Page 42 1924 FOO'TBALL REVIEW Notre Dame 40 Carnegie Tech.. 19 The season of 1924 will go down in the annals of football as one of upsets and surpnsmg- consequences. Until the Tech victory, Notre Dame was undefeated hut the football 'vorld feared for the outcome of Notre Dame's final game. However, the four Horsemen treated the 35,000 fans to such an exhibition of dazzling football that there remained no doubt as to which was the nations greatest football team. Rockne, following the custom of preceding games, sent in his shock team con sisting of Crowe and Eaton, ends; l\Icl\Iullen and l\'lcl\'lanmo? tackles; Glueckcrt and. Hanousek, guards; l\Iaxwell at center; the backfield included Edward's, O'Boyle, Connell and Livergood. But the Rockmen were confronted with a team of tearing, smearing, fighting Tartans who refused to be subdued uritil Kristoff blocked a punt and raced thirty-five yards for a touchdown. At this point, Rock stood up and signalled to vV alsh to lead his team on the field. Once the regulars got warmed up there was no doubt as to the outcome, though ~he battlers of Carne gie Tech were by no means easily tamed . . Layden was unable to play because of an injury but Livergood and Cerney, al ternating at fullback, played a game which will be long 'remembered. Don l\Hller went over for the first touch-down on a pass from his room-mate Stuhldreher; Cerney, who had replaced Livergood, was the next to counter, and the half ended with. the score tied at 13-13. ,- In the second half the Tartan defc:J;Ise weakened and Livergood went over for two touch-downs; Crowley and Stuhldreheraddcd each another one to make the score tally unanimous in the backfield. Bcdc for Carnegie Tech, added a third touch-down against the Notre Dame "shock troops," who had relieved the regulars. In the Tech game, N otrc Dame successfully completed twelve consecutive passes, a new world's record. · AT CARNEGIE TECH. (1923). 1924 FOO'IBALL REVIEW Page 43 "Notre Pame Gallops Over Carnegie Tech" By \V ARREN W. BnowN., Chicago Herald and Examiner PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 29.-Three of the Tech kicked off to the Notre Dame 28-yard Four Horsemen Qf Notre Dame, Crowley, line and then, P?SS, pass, pass the boys were Stuhldreher and Miller, and a person named marching. Stuhldreher to Crowley, Stuhldre Livergood, who is not a Horseman, is consid her to Miller, line smashes by Cerney, off erably more thap. an exercise boy, cut loose tackle slants by Crowley and one final flop of in such mad fashion in the second half Cerney's that nett~~ _three· yards and a touch of today's tussle with Carnegie Tech, pass down. Notre Dame 13 ;·Tech, 6; hooray. ing, and running and banging the line, that they Just when the Ramblers were about ready turned a ·13-13 tie, in which the. first half to don . their snowshoes and start .on another ended, into a 40 to 19 final score, which is at cross-country jaunt this Cerney person, who once the largest score that has been run up seems to specialize in fumbles, put on his act against the Rock_ne Ramblers this season, and on his own 28-yard line and Harmon of Tech the equal of the count Notre Dame amassed recovered. It was at this point that Tech. against Lombard in the first game of the year. pulled their phony pass play and scored the There was glory enough counter that tied things up for Carnegie Tech's light, again. They were still tied fast, alert players.. One when the _half . ended. touchdown against t h e H - .. -....._p - ... - .. ..,-_~- 1924 F007"BALL REVIEW Page45 The Four Horsemen of Notre Darne POLO GROUNDS, New York, October 18.-0utlined against a blue gray Octo ber sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruct_ion and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. . -GRANTLAND RICE, (New York Times). Isn't this Notre Dame backfield the greatest ever played?" · It is the greatest \ve have ever seen when speed, power, team play, rhythm, grace, dash and general ability are all to be considered. There has never been a faster backfield. There has never been one with as much beauj;y of rhythm. They have been in only two defeats in three· years, both from the same team. After to day they fade from the scene, but no one who saw them play this fall will forget the picture. There have been greater individual backs, but we have never seen four upon one team who had as much class. -GRANTLAND RICE October 25 in the Palmer Stadium, Princeton was defeated 12-0 by a great eleven from Notre Dame. The same quartet of splendid backs who ran wild last year again· proved their title to fame as one of the most marvelous backfields of all time. Without any question, I think, this quartet is collectively the fastest backfield I have ever seen. In my judgment the slowest member of it can run a hundred in ten-two. · But they have not only speed, they have intuitive genius in eluding· tackles; moreover, genius fortified and improved by carefully pol ished coaching to obtain the last inch out of every effort to advance the ball. Crowley is the finest back, bali-in-hand, who has. appeared on an eastern gridiron since Mahan. He does not attempt to do all the things Mahan did, but at runing with the ball he is every bit as good as Mahan. On the showing of Saturday he is as gJod .defensively ~s on the offense. Indeed, the great. defensive power of this whole backfield -was a distinct surprise to me. DONALD GRANT HERRING, (The Princeton- Alumni "\Veekly.) Page 46 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW The Eugene C. Bonniwell Football Trophy of America Avvarded to Notre Dame The Eugene C. Bonniwell Football trophy, symbolic of the National Football Championship of America, is donated by the Veteran Athletes of Philadelphia, upon such jrears when the preeminence of any football team is so beyond dispute as to en title it to national recognition. The cup is awarded only in those years wl1en the Board of Directors of the Association by an unanimous vote of its membership, designates such a recipient. The Eugene C. Bonniwell Trophy for 1924 has been awarded to Notre Dame. Some of the Directors of the Association who awarded the cup to Notre Dame are: HENNRY PENN BunKE Dn. GEoRGE "\V. ORTON, Five times Commodore of the Director of Pennsylvania Relay Scht)ylkill Navy, the greatest row Races, and holder of seventeen ing association in this country. American or N a~ional and Olympic Championships at the mile, 1500 En1f_EST CouzENS meters and three mile distances. All-American Center and Captain "\VILLIAM H. RocAP of the University of Pennsylvania National authority on sport, Chair 1905 te~m. Graduate ~Ian.ager U. man Pennsylvania State Boxing of P. ·Athletics. Commission~ SAl\lUEL J. DALLAS WILLIAM \V. RoPER President Meadowbrook C I u b , Ex-Captain-Coach Princeton Uni- Philadelphia, Vice-President. Penn versity football team. A. C., and President Atlantic Di- . visi~n, A. A._ U. for. ten years. DR. J. K. SHELL Fullback, University of Pennsyl "\V ILLIAM G. FmEDGEN vania, 1884, Coach at Pennsylvania,. Philadelphia Turngemein~e Olym:.. Swarthmore and Illinois. pic Foils, Sabre and Broadsword RALPH. B. STRASSBURGER Champion, 1900. United States Naval Academy, PAuL "\V.~ GmBoNs whose ninety yard run defeated the Army some fifteen years ago. Vice-Prcsi_~ent, Penn A. C., and na tional Tennis authority. ALLEN E. (Mum) WHITING Captain and halfback, CornelL CHARLES c. HILDEBRAND ·Four letter man Pennsylvania State· HERMAN F. WoLFE College and tackle on the 1890-1-2 World's Amateur 135-45 \Vrestling teams; Champion, 1893-98. The Hon. Eugene C. Bonniwell who is a judge of the ~Iunicipal Court of Phil . adelphia, ina letter to the editors of .the REVIEW, writes, "Sorry we cannot sent you a photograpl~ of the cup,but you can rest assured it will be one commensurate with the team of Our Lady." 1924 FOO?:BALL.REVIEW Page 47 :Rrickne Makes R¢ady to. Invade East Next Saturday·· . ~ Page 48 1924 F007'BALL REVIEW "What Sort of a Team is Notre Dame?" B.lf 'VARREN ,V. BrrowN. Sporting Editor, Chicago !Jerald and E.vaminer.* "\Vhat sort of a team is Notre Dame?"· seems to be the problem that is worrying all the natives of this couptry who haven't been able to get a peek at the boys in action. So marked has been the success of the team, in all kinds of going, ·and. against all sorts of competion, many who haven't seen the team, have ascribed to it all kinds of powers, magical and otherwise. It has reached a point where one who. has seen the Rockne Ramblers, can tell one who has not, almost any sort of a yarn about the team's accomplishments, and make him believe it. That, I believe, is one of the answers to "What sort of a team is Notre Dame?" From views take_n from a perch on the top of the stand, generally allotted to the workers of the press, at football struggles, and from various observations made at odd moments during practice sessions, the only decision I can come to about "What sort of a team is Notre Dame?" is that it is a team, first, and eleven healthy, husky, capable yo.ung players after:wards. · That, I am sure, is as much responsible for the success· of the combination, as anything else. Coach Rockne, or his players.: or both, have managed to realize a sort of p1~actical applica tion of the "One for all, and all for one," principle. I have, at a practice tilt, heard· the coach "call" one of his more famous players, with the same thoroughness, and the same~· I am happy to write, good effect as was noticeable when he took to task one of the boys who hadn't eyen reached a point where he was considered a member of the "shock troops." That's team spirit. That's what wins games. That's "what sort of a team is Notre Dame." . I'll grant that the backfield gathered together this season is a perfect a quartet as it has ever been my good fortune to watch. But it is equally true that one can go from one end of the line to the other, and if not always naming a star, as football. stars go, nevertheless be able to pick a player who knew his job, and knew, its relation to what his neighbor was trying to do. There may have been players on. the Notre Dame team who were not entitled to "All:· American" rating, but none can say that there were players on the team who we!en't the best possible units for the makeup of a team that comes as close to perfection as one will ever see. - This is not meant for a. hurrahing of Notre Dame, just for the sake of cutting loose :with a long cheer. It is more or iess hard facts. Study the record that Notre Dame's football team has made in the various parts of· the country to which its travels ·have called it, and you'll concede that no •. .; but a perfect team could survive. · . . . It has been said that no team can keep "pointed" Saturday after Saturday ;that each team must have its good· days and its bad; and that on the bad, the so-called "upsets" are certain. Notre Dame's bad days came along in the season just closed. But .Notre Dame was coached, and understood its coaching in such a manner that it was able to resist the "upset," that bad days generally. bripg. I haven't a doubt but that Notre Danie will succeed in doing what no team from this side of the Rockies has ever done before-play its game at Pasaden~. This is the one game that Notre Dame and Rockne must win, and it is hard to conceive of Capt. Walsh, the four. Gallop ing Goal ~rossers, Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden, faltering when the word comes that the game. must be won.. If there is any doubt on this subject, you are referred, respectfully, to Army, .Princeton, Nebraska, Georgia Tech, Northwestern, Wisconsin, etc., etc., the milestones .-or should one say headstones?-along the path of Notre Dame to the ~ndisputed championship of the United States, the first team in memory, ever to attain such a destination. *Written upon the occasion of Warren W. Brown's visit to Notre Dame 'to speak at the alumni ovation to the var- sity held December 13. . . . · ,:==c:rr==s •.. .,._ ' ...... #' 7.-. 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Page 4 THE HORSEMEN IN ACTION (Above) Crowley carrying; the ball; (Below) Don Miller running;; Layden on the ground. Page 50 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW The "Kick" in Notre Dame By CHARLES PHILLIPS, l\L A. Lecturer in English Literature; Author of uThe New Poland,, "The Teachers' Year,, "The Divine Friend", etc. Ev-erything that comes out of that blessed old campus has a Ieick: to it!-FnANI\. 'VALLACE, '23, Associated Press. Ten million people went to football games .this year-to the big games. This is not counting at all the million or two~ easily that, who witnessed scholastic contests of various grades.· Ten million-and it's a safe bet that 9,999,999 of these, some time or other, talked with a thrill in their voices and a pull at their hearts-admiration, exultation, fear, wonder-of Rockne, of the Four Horsemen, of Captain Adam, of brilliant scientific plays and knockout scores of No trc Dame. There's a kick in that name today. Notre Dame! 'Vhat doesn't it mean! · The deft sharp interference that baffles, surprises,. blocks; the arrow-like· drive of young swift bodies catapulting through the line; the streaking end-run that jerks your heart into· your throat and chokes it there; the trim sure leg that swings· the unerring foot; the plump of the pigskin as it sails into the blue for punt or goal; the team, the score, the victory ..· . what does . it all mean, anyway? · · It means this for sure-stout hearts, clear eyes, quick wits, trained muscles, . clean limbed vigor, verve and go. There's a kick in all of that. But it means more. It means men; it means character. That's where the real kick comes in. If we pause and think for Just one moment of what has gone into the making of this glory of ours, this undisputed glory and this giving of healthy invigorating pleasures ... to tens of thousands of what sacrifices of' time and strength, what submissions to routine ana discipline, what practice in self-control,- what patience and determination and persistence; what hours on hours of grilling work doing a thing over and over and over again, and once more over and over, to make it perfect ;-if 1vc think of this for one minute, then we will know where the kick lies in the magic words "Notre Dame." "Notre Dame." That name is a symbol today the whole sport world over, and far beyond the boundaries of the sport world-a symbol of mor~ than speed and endurance and gridiron science. "'\Vith forty-five of the forty-eight states of the Union represented on our campus, Notre Dame has become a sort of America in miniature. Not a mere section of the nation, but the whole nation, its youth, its young blood, its ideals and. aspirations, are focused on the old quadrangle where the Bronze Christ holds out His. hands in benedict~on and the Golden :Madonna looks down· protectingly with maternal love. And on the quadrangle the eyes of the entire country-at any· rate, of ten millions of our citizens-have been set during the past year with wonder and admiration and a very deep respect, visioning in the mime of Notre Dame something greater even than the title of a great University-visioning in the words "Notre Dame" a symbol of American manhood. That's where the kick comes in-in the realization that our country still produces brain and brawn of the sound old stock that keeps the ·world moving and makes· it, after all, a joyous and interesting place to live in; the stock that can play a game and win and keep. its head, and still-believe in God with a man's· strong untainted faith-the stock that prays to Heaven for its victories, knowing that no worthy act is un- . worthy the eye of God; the stock that thanks Our Lady for its triumphs and by its every· deed -and word invokes and honors Jeanne d' Arc of the spotless armour, :Michael of the invincible sword, the whole bright company of God's Saints; the stock that can offer even its defeats to Christ as a sacrifice on the altar of faith. _There's a kick in Notre Dame; not alone in Notre·Dame football, but in every effort, every endeavor, every activity that its men undertake. It is a training camp for more than .famous backfields, mighty captains, invinciable Horsemen. It is a training camp for men, for Ameri can citizenship, for Christian manhood. That's where the kick is-in the knowledge· that America's acclaimed champions of the gridiron are the representatives of an ideal that works, and will work for all time to come, like a strong leaven in our national . soul-the ideal of manliness, sp~rtmanship, chivalry, of friendly rivalry and inspiring competition, based on the solid foundation of Christian living. "He's a Notre Dame man"-there's a password for any man, anywhere. There's a kick in the very words. They mean "something doing"-and something done. l\Iore and mor.e the world beyond our campus realizes this, because more and more the Notre Dame man himself realizes it and lives tip to it. Everything that comes out of that blessed old campus has a Icicle to it! 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Page 51 Student ManaQers Cheer Leaders · Rockne had two All Rockne and· the team had an American generals this ·"ace" in the hole this year in year-Stuhldreher on the the person of Leo H. Sutliffe, field, and Eddie Luther Student l\Ianager. Rockne was on the sidelines as cheer- the great director and "Sut" 'leader par excellence. was his stage · manager, his Early in the year Eddie man behind the scenes. The got the gang together, job was one that required a and with his pounding, great deal of initiative,· atten r~--...... -· smashing spirit worked tion to detail,· and much up enthusiasm to· fever patience. On the long jaunts heat. 'Vith a year of ex . I away from home it was up to . ..·;_- J'·:~ perience behind hiin, Ed:.. ; ·_...... -· __ 1 • :i Sutliffe to route the team, to die worked like a trojan, ' LEO SUTLIFFE write in for hotel reservations, ~ . and he is now hailed as Student Manager to pack and check equipment, EDDIE LUTHER Head Cheer· Leader "AI". Slaggert the sec to arrange meals and to supply taxis and other ond, the peer of Notre incidentals necessary for the comfort and wel Dame's cheer leaders. The rousing demon fare of the team. Sutliffe deserves much cred strations given upon the occasions o{ the Geor it for the way in which he handled the team gia Tech and the Nebraska pep meetings are on their five trips to foreign fields. sufficient evidence of Eddie's ability. Among other things, Eddie introduced several new At home Sutliffe had even more to do. But yells, whipped the Freshmen recruits into here he had a· corps of able assistants-men shape, trained his assistants, and then went to from the Junior, Sophomore, and Freshman the Army game and made the alumni yell classes, who, under the competitive Student themselves permanently hoarse. He then led Athletic l\Ianagers system, are eligible for full five hundred "Fighting Irish" to Madison and inanagerships their senior year. Under Sut it is said that the echoes still linger in Camp liffe's efficient organization and supervision Randall Stadium. these men did their work well, and, conse The assistant cheer leaders, Abbrott, quently, made the competition keener than Sweeney, and 1\Ioylan, assisted Eddie in great ever for future managerial positions. This is style. The staff was handicapped, however, as it should be for the work these men do re because of the lack of a properly concentrated lieves the coach of unnecessary worries, and cheering section in the stands. permits him to give his undivided attention to the team. At home the student managers sell and take . in tickets at the gates, take complete charge of seating at the games, take care of tlie score board, distribute tickets in .hotels ·and cigar stands, have advertising posters printed and distributed, and take care of visiting teams and officials. · Sutliffe' s Junior assistants in this work were Bill Reid, Ed Fallon, Andy Sleigh, Charles :1\'Iooney, L. C. Hegele, John Ryan, and Jack Adams. The Sophomore 1\Ianager ial candidates include 'Villiam Kavanaugh, ·James Jones, James Coleman, )Villiam· O'Keefe, G. O'Brien, and J. Fiske. The Freshman managers .are A. 1\I. Grams, E. F. Bou!ke, J. P. Courts, B. J. Stettler, B. E. Zip pere.r, lV. F. Duffy, J. D. Igoe, P. J. O'Con nor, R. A. 'Veppner, D. Butler, G. Sargus,- L. '\Vingerter, T. Hopper and P. J. :McNamara. Page 52. 192.4 FOOTBALL REVIEW The '23 Varsity . .Officers KNUTE K. Rocu:NE ------If ead Coach GEoRGE KEOGAN ------Assistant Coach HARVEY BROWN ------Captain ADAl\I 'VALSH ------Captain-elect JAMES SwiFT ------Student Manager Personnel CoLLINS N OPPENDERGER VERGARA CRoWLEY . CERNEY CRoWE BACH KIZER DoN l\liLLER ENRIGHT l\fAYL . EDGAR :MILLER REAGON BERGMAN LAYDEN MuRPHY OBERST WALSH CoNNELL STANGE HuNsiNGER BRoWN REESE l\LuiER LIVERGOOD vVEIDEL STUHLDREHER HousER The Reserves LAMONT NEWl\IAN BARRY l\hLDAUER FINCH ARNDT . GLUECKERT EATON Roux WALLACE FARRELL J. MILLER HARRINGTON RIG ALI LAFOLI.ETTE RoAcH MAGEVNEY HARMON E,GGERT RIGNEY CouGp~IN GLYNN CooKE l\fcl\f ULLEN SuLLIVAN :McGEE l\fcGRATH FRISKE l\IAcNAn !I:...=· ::;;;:;;;;~~- ,.::;:::;-·~~====-====--=------~- :::-:--·-~-----_:------:----:---_-~_:-__ -__ -___-_ --::-__ .--:-__-_- __-_ ---~------~---_-__- ____.,.._ -----~-~-_- __ -___ -__:_---_- __-::._ ___ ---_- __ -__ -_;_-.~-~--~~-:.c->.--._ ~,.,------· 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW Paqe 58 F reshrnan Football The hope· arid the ambition of ev_ery prospective football player· entering college is to make-the freshman team. A place with the first year regulars gives the aspirant to gridiron. glories an edge on the man who waits till his second year to try out for the varsity. In a conversation between several varsity football stars a few years ago, the freshmen were fondly referred to as the "Goats". The yearling squad faces the ·task each year of giving ·impromptu demonstrations of· the plays of opponents, scheduled for the varsity on the next Saturday. The varsity perfects a defense against the first year men, using the opposition's formations. Each year the freshmen squad at Notre Dame plays an important partin shaping the varsity into a winning aggregation. The yearlings toil each night against their heavier and more experienced opponents and at- the end of the season they go into oblivion, unhonored- and unsung; forgotten everywhere but in the mind of the varsity coach who is looking forward. to material for next year. The freshman team of 1924 played a -gallant role in preparing Rockne's Fighting Irish for _a season of no defeats and the subsequent national _title. Coach George Keogan and his assistant, George Vergara, garnered a fighting freshman team out of more than a hundred candidates who answered the first call last September. What Rockne said about the varsity team can be applied to the freshman also, "We had a fairly good season." · The 1924 freshman team was composed of many good men who showedpromise of being vah.iable additions to future varsity teams, by causing this year's varsity no small ·amount of trouble in the many scrimmage practices. Three months of playing on the first year team within earshot of the lessons being taught in the famous Rockne school, has served to accustom the frosh to the Notre Dame system of football and although they had little . opportunity. to develop as a team \vith organization and a permanent attack because of the numerous changes to different systems· to accomo date the various formations of the opponents, the squad as a whole gave every promise of being an invaluable asset to Rockne when he starts his 1925 campaign. ·The yearlings .won two games in three starts, defeating Western State Normal, 15 to 7, and La Fountaine 31 to 0, and losing to Lake Forest, 9 to 0 after a stubborn battle against the terrific drive of the' Academy backfield. . Little can be said of the individual work of the men since they never had a fair chance to show under normal conditions. McCleary and Parisien divided the work at the pilot berth while Bushman, Walsh, Quinn and Fenney performed most of the time at the halves. F. Collins and Hanely carried the fullback burden. In the line were Captain Boeringer .and Fredricks at the center; Pliska, Loeppig, Smith and O'Toole at the guards; Norman, Graf, Cavanaugh and McAdams at the tackles; Krembs, Byrne, Heffernan and Shevigny at the ends. ,- . ---·· - _:. ·- -·-·· ·_ ---. Page 54 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW All-American and All-Western Teams of 1924 Walter Ecke~sall' s All-American Elevens FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM THIRD TEAM L. E ...... Luman, Yale ...... Lawson, Leland Stanford ....Wakefield, Vanderbilt L. T ...... \Vier, Nebraska ...... McGinley, Pennslyvania ...... Van Dyne, Missouri L. G...... Pondelik, Chicago ...... Garbisch, Army ...... Diehl, Dartmouth C...... H_ornell, California ...... Walsh, Notre Dame ...... Lovejoy, Yale R. G...... Farwick, Army ...... Abramson, Minnesota ...... Parson, Northwestern R. T ...... Beattie, Princeton ...... Gowdy, Chicago ...... N. Anderson, So. Cal. R. E ...... Bjorkman, Dartmouth ...... Mahaney, Holy Cross ...... Otte, Iowa Q. B ...... Stuhldreher, Notre Damc ...... Dooley, Dartmouth ...... -.... Parkin, Iowa (Captain) (Captain) . (Captain) L. H ...... Grange, Illinois ...... Baker, Northwestern ...... Bahr, Purdue R. H ...... Crowley, Notre Dame ...... _~tockton, Gonzaga ...... Pond, Yale F. B...... Layden, Notre Dame ...... McBride, Syracuse ...... vyycoff, Georgia Tech Eckersall' s ·All-Western Elevens FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM THIRD .TEAM L. E...... ~ .. Lingenfelter, Drake ...... Dilwig, Marquette ...... Seidel, Northwestern L. T ...... Wier, Nebraska .. ~ ...... Cox, Minnesota ...... Henderson, Chicago . L. G...... Pondelik, Chicago ...... Parsons, N. U ...... Bieberstein, Wisconsin C ...... Walsh, Notre Dame ...... Claypool, Purdue ...... Lowry, Northwestern R. G...... Abramson, Minnesota ...... Steele, Michigan ...... Hubka, Nebraska R. T ...... Gowdy, Chicago ...... Bach, Notre Dame ...... Van Dyne, Missouri ·R. E ...... Otte, Iowa ...... Cunningham, Ohio State ...... Collins, Notre Dame '. Q. B ...... Stuhldreher, Notre Dame...... Parkin, Iowa ...... Orebaugh, Drake i (Captain) (Captain) (Captain) L. H ...... Grange, Illinois ...... Baker, Northwestern ······"···N. Behm, Ames R. H ...... Crowley, Notre Dame ...... Bahr, Purdue ··········-·~····-----··Rhodes, Nebraska F. B ...... Layden, Notre Dame ...... Thomas, Chicago ...... Levi, Haskell · Jones-Rockne-Warner All-American .T ea~s FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM THIRD TEAM L. E ...... Lawson, Stanf01'd ...... : ...... Wakefield, Vanderbilt ...... Stout, Princeton L. G...... McGinley, Penn ...... : ...... N. Anderson, Sou. Calif...... Karney, Cornell L. T ...... Farwick, Army ...... Bellman, Washington ...... Abramson, Minnesota C...... Lovejoy, Yale ...... Horrell, California ...... Walsh, Notre Dame R. G...... Pondelik, Chicago ...... Garbisch, Army ...... Diehle, ·Dartmouth R. T ...... Weir, Nebraska ...... Beattie, .Princeton ...... Van Dyne, Missouri R. E ...... Luman, Yale ...... Bjorkman, Dartmouth ...... Cunningham, Ohio Q. B...... Stuhldreher, Notre Dame ...... Dooley, Dartmouth ...... Parkin, Iowa L. H ...... Grange, Illinois ...... Koppisch, Cloumbia ...... Baker, Northweste!·n R. H ...... Crowley, Notre Dame ...... Pond, Yale, .~.-~ ...... Jones,· Florida · F. B ...... Layden, Notre Dame ...... McBride, Syracuse ...... Scott, Yale Notre Dame uScholastic" ·All-American T earns Picked by the Notre Dame Student Body-t:· FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM THIRD TEAM L. E ...... Wakefield, Vanderbilt : ...... Bullman, West Virginia ...... Collins, Notre Dam2 L. T ...... Wier, Nebraska ...... ~ach, Notre Dame ...... Gowdy, Chicago · L. G...... Pondelik, Chicago ...... Farwick, Army ...... Abramson, Minnesota· C.:...... Walsh, Notre Dame ...... Horrell, California.. :...... Lovejoy, Yale R. G...... Garbisch, Army ...... Deihl, Darthmouth ··~···········Eckstein, Brown R. T: ...... l\!_cGinley, Penn...... Anderson, U. S. C...... Beattie, Princeton R. E ...... Luman, Yale ...... Lawson, Stanford ...... Bjorkman, Dartmouth Q. B...... Stuhldreher, Notre Dame ...... Pease, Columbia ...... ~ ....Dooley, Dartmouth L. H ...... Crowley, Notre Dame ...... Baker, Northwestern ...... Pond, Yale R. H ...... Grange, Illinois ...... !{oppisch, Columbia ...... Miller, Notre Dame F. B...... Layden, Notre Dame...... Hazel, Rutgers ...... Benkert, Rugers *These All-American elevens are the result of five hundred ballots east by members of the Notre Dame Student Body. The players were given points for first, second or third place selections and the three receiving the high er number of points were given places on the first, second or third teams. A special effort was made to have im partial selections made. It is understood of· course, that to the Notre. Dame student, the perfect All-American team is that which Coach Rockne used this fall to make glorious Notre Dame football history. Teasing the Tiger .·-.:~.z;:;}~~t:~~::~_:.~;:~::::::.::·: . ... - ··:··· .-:· ... ~.: :· :.-· v-..;.~~;..•. The· C}targe of the :Four· ·Horsemen • i'. ·'_ j/,/ ~-, , .. !:.:··· ,··.-- .. t. ·I~ Page 56 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW The 1923 Season HARVEY BROWN . Captain The Records Septe1nber 29 ______N otre Daine____ 7 4; l{almnazoo ______0 October 6 ______N otre Daine____ 14; Lmnbard ------0 October 13______N otre Dame ____ 13;. Ariny ------0 October 20 ______N otre Daine.... 25; Princeton ______2 October 27 ______N otre Daine____ 35; Georgia Tech.. 7 · N ove1nber 3 ...... N otre Dame.... 34; Purdue ------~- 7 N oven1ber 10 ______N otre Dame____ 7; N ebra_ska ______14 N ove1nber 17______Notre Dame.... 34; Butler ------7 N ove1nber 24______N otre Dame ____ 26; Carnegie Tech 0 N ove1nber 29 ______N otre Daine.... 13; St. Louis ------0 / The Total N u1nber of Points Scored: Notre Dame 27 5 ; Opponents 37. .! ,"'•' .,.•'-... ~ • ' • - , , f • ~ 1 -~ - \~' c";- ,.. ::_ • • r, ~. ~, .: ,..f"'.... ~ • t !-·-·--~.:.. ~-~-·---- ' . . . ·~\. ·-} .. 1924 FOO'IBALL REVIEW Page 57 L 1924 Football Verse '-· '1'1-IE I-IORSEniEN'S RIDE THE IRISH LINE On gridiron fields of football fame, The poets who sang the great battle of old Ride the four great horsemen of Notre And apportioned the laurels due Dame, To the victors., full often left untold From Princeton East· to Nebraslca T¥est, The 11raises of heroes true. They ha_ve charged through the lines of the To commander or chief in each higher grade countries best, · TVere allotted the honors won; "They shall not pass" the Army cried, But rarely were fitting tributes 11aid But nothing could stop the horsemen's rid.e, To the man behind the gun. .On to victor.lf and immortal fame, Still ride· the four great horsemen of Ifotre So, too, in the mimic. battles fought Dame. And ·won on the autumn field., -PITTSBURGH GAZETTE TIMES. Not seldom brave Forwards seem half-forgot, Their derring-do half-concealed. Y et".many a headliner's 11lace in the sun "TtHE FOUR HORSEJI!IEN" Is due to their fierce attaclcs; And ever they rode and ever tlzey •won, For, lilce to the man behind the gun, That trinity led by a fourth. Are the lads befl!re the Baclcs. In the East, through the 1Vest and the South, And right through t.hf!. walls of the North. So, a songfor TValsh and his Line that starred The st;enuous sea~on through, For nothing coitld .stop them nor hold A cheer for each taclcle .and end and guard Those horsemen that traveled .lilce flame; TVho fought for the Gold and Blue! They rode with· the footfalls of fat~ · Here's to Kizer and 1Veibel., to Hunsinger, And the ans·wer was always· the same. · "Rip," . To Collins and.Bach, in fine! I dealic quartet of all time . ·Now, all together., a big "Hip~ I-Iip., The song that you sang was complete, Hzirrah!" for the 1ris1t Line. It was 'round 'em mid through 'em and past -ARTHUR BARRY•. To the time of your merciless feet. Great riders who've never been thrown, You're leaving us; deep is regret. THE PASSING SHOTV TVith som.e will your memory fade, Ther.e will be stars ·who are still paradin" But the ridden •will never forget! Out in front with the flare of fame., -HARCOURT STRANGE. But Stuhldreher, Miller., Croroley and Layden Are playing their final game. "THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER" Soon they rise and as soon are fadin", CrO'tole.lf and Layden, side b,1J side., Others roill come from the laureled glen; niiller and. Stuhldreher in their stride., But I •want to see nfiller and Crowle.lf and After to-da.1J will no more ride Layden And so their curtain falls to-night. Taldng that ball again. -GRANTLAND RICE. -GRANTLAND RICE. Page 58 1924 FOOTBALL REVIEW The 1922. Season GLENN CARBERRY· Captain. The Records Septe1nber 30 ______Notre Dame... .46; Kalan1azoo 0 October 7 ______Notre D.ame .... 26; "St. Louis U .. ~-- 0 October 14 ______Notre Dame.... 20; Purdue ------0 October 21 ______Notre Dame.... 34; DePau'v ~------7 October 28 ______Notre.· Dame.... 13; Georgia Tech 3 November 4 ______N otre Dame.... 27; Indiana · ------0 N oveniber 1L-----~-N otre Dame____ 0; Army ---~------·---- 0 November 18 ______N otre Dame.... 31; Butler ------3 November 25 ______N otre Dame..... 19; Carnegie Tech 0 November 30 ______N otre Dame____ 6; Nebraska ______14 / Total Number of Points Scored: Notre Da1ne, 222; Opponents, 27. _:... ---~~-··-·.:.. _ __..;.._ .. ·.-.. ------~··-·--- 192.4 FOOTBALL REVIEW Page 59 The '22 Varsity Officers KNUTE K. Roci{NE ------Head Coach RoGER KILEY ------Assistant Coach ·GLENN CARBERRY ············------·······.····- Captain HARVEY. BROWN •...•.••...... •.•• Captain-elect En\vARD LENNON ••.•••...... •.... Student Manager Personnel CARBERRY LmB BRoWN REGAN 1\icNULTY OBERST DEGREE .,VALSH COLLINS En :MILLER ·KIZER STUHLDREHER 1VfAYL STANGE FLINN THOMAS VERGARA CoTToN 'VEinEL LAYDEN CROWLEY' :MAHER DoN :MILLER BERGMAN Co.NNELL CERNEY LIVERGOOD CASTNER The Reserves LoGAN Roux CooK FELTES GENE l\fuRPHY GRIFFIN JERRY l\f ILLER ENRIGHT FLYNN CouGHLIN Voss· KANE HuNSINGER :MIXSON REESE Til\1 l\f URPHY :MILBAUER HARl\ION f<~~l.f~~:;:.:.:.:.C.::.: ~--:.-:;_~~~:"::.~~~:==·.:· r~ ..-- ':""':.. ' .\.~,/ .. :I 1-'lii :. li) :: ·Page 60 . 1924 FOOTBALL REVJEW Great Write_~ Ups of 1924 GRANTLAND RICE most of the football. It was the Army at tack that made three first downs before No (New Yorl~ Tim-es.) tre Dame had caught its stride. POLO GROUNDS, New York, October 18, The South Bend cyclone . opened like a 1924.-0utlined against a blue, g~ay October. zephyr and then, in the wake of a sudden sky the Four Horsemen rode agam. cheer, out r.ushed Stuhldreher, Miller, Crow In dramatic lore they are known as fam ley and LaydenJ the four star backs :vho ine pestilence, destruction and death. These helped best the Army a year ago. Thmgs are' only aliases. Their real names are: were to be a trifle different now. . After a Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. short opening flurry in the second period the They formed the crest of the South Bend cloud in the west at this point was no larger cyclone before which another fighting Army than a football. There was no sign of a tor team was swept over the precipice at the Polo nado starting, but it happened to be at just Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators this spot that Stuhldreher decided to put on peered down upon the bewildering panorama his attack and begin the long and dusky hike. spread out upon the green plain below. On the .first play the fleet Crowley peeled A cyclone can't be snared. It may be sur off 15 yards and the cloud from the west was now beginning to show signs· of lightning a~d rounded but s.omewhere it breaks through to thunder. The fleet, powerful Layden got six keep on going. When the cyclone starts from yards more and then Don Miller added 10. A South Bend where the candle lights still forward pass from Stuhldreher to Crowl~y gleam through the Indiana sycamores those in 'added 12 yards and a moment later Don Mil the way must take to the storm cellars at top ler -ran 20 yards around the Army's right speed. The cyclone struck again as Notre wing. He was on his way to glory when ·Dame beat the Army 13 to 7 with a set of Wilson, hurtling across the . right of way, backfield stars that ripped and rushed through nailed him on the_10 yard line and threw him a strong Army defense with more speed and out of bounds. · power than the walTing Cade.ts could meet. Crowley, Miller and Layden-Miller, Lay Notre Dame won its eighth game in eleven den and Crowley-one or the other, ripping starts through the driving power of one of the and crashing through as the Army defense greatest backfields that ever churned up the threw everything it _had in the way to stop turf of any gridiron in any football ag.e. this wild charge that had no\y come 70 yards. Brilliant backfields may come and go but m Crowley and L~yden added five yards more Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden, and then'on a split play Layden went 10 yards covered by a fast and charging line, Notre across the line as if he had just been fired Dame can take its place in front of the field. from the black mouth of a Howitzer. Coach McEwan sent one of his finest teams into action, an· aggressive organization that Speed Beat West Point. fought to the last play around the first rim of darkness, but when Rockne rushed his four It was speed that beat the Army, speed horsemen to the track they rode down every plus interference. And when a back such as thing in sight. . Harry Wilson finds few chances to get started you figure upon the defensive strength that : - :; 1 It was in that 1400 gray clad cadets I~ \ pleaded for the ·Army line to hold. The Army is barricading the road. Wilson is one of 'the :! line was giving all it had but when a tank hardest backs in the game to suppress, but tears in with the speed of a motorcycle, what he found few chances yesterday to show his chance had flesh and blood to hold? The Army broken field ability. You can't run through. had its share of stars in action, such stars a broken field until you get there. / as Garbisch, Farwick, Wilson, Wood, Elinger One strong feature of the Army play was and many others, but they were up against its head long battle against heavy odds. Even four whirlwind backs who picked up top when Notre Dame had scored two touch speed from the first . step as they swept downs and was well on its way to a third, the through scant openings to slip on by the sec army fought on with fine spirit, until the ondary defense. The Army had great backs touchdown chance came at last, and when this in Wilson and Wood, but the Army had no chance came in the fourth quarter coach Mc such quartet who seemed to carry the mixed Ewan had the play ready for the final march 'blood of the tiger and the antelope. across the line. • Rockne's light .and tottering line was just about as· tottering as the Rock of Gibraltar. The Army has a better team than it had It was something more than a match for the last year. so· has Notre Dame. We doubt Army's great se.t of forwards who had earned that any team in the country could have their fame before, yet it was not until the beaten Rockne's yesterday afternoon, east or second period that the first big thrill of the west. It was a great football team billiantly afternoon set the great crowd into a cheer directed, a team of speed, power and team ing whirl. and brought about the 'vild flutter play. The Army has no cause for gloom over of flags that are thrown to the· wind in ex its showing. It played first .class football citing moments. At the game's start, Rockne against more speed than it could match. sent in almost entirely the second string cast. Those who have tackled a cyclone can un : i The Army got the jump and began to play derstand. :! ': . ! . ·. :!'i . i ·'·\: ... : . . . ~' ·. . , ·. . ·.. · ·. . :.. \ • . .· . . . . . ' ...... i . . . , ... ' '; ~; . ·,~...... ~.. "-~'-§' ·;;:;;..:!./ ·. ~ '..'' •. 'A~J"" t .... .,., ,_-.- :4 ' ",".._. • • Jf "r ,- ';..',... ~., • • ~-~""l' < .. .:-,~-..·•~,....-~.l/'',>. ! H"~~ \!__,.,. '•r",~ "'~"~"' • ""',., ·~"; '/'"'~·':'"."' ~· t"' • ~ ,' ~_.. '', •"':"• ~· • GEORGE TREVOR so close to the turf that one expects to see his · ·(Staff Corresponde?~t of Broolclyn neck· snapped off, Layden who keeps churn ing ahead with three Princeton tacklers . Eagle.J draped on his back, Layden who leans so far PRINCETON, · N:- J:,- Oct; 25 ...;..;...Don't ever . f¢rward that he seems to be nose diving in laugh again at the movie magnate who .re stead of running. fused to accept "The Hunchback .of Notre · . Each of the Backs Shows His Worth. Dame" for production because he thought - Now it is Don Miller's turn, Miller 'vith' the public was tired of football stories. After t}J.e speed of the antelope and. the elusiveness watching Crowley, Miller ·.and Layden _do l- their stuff in the Palmer Memorial Stadium of the serpent) .. Miller who sneaks. his way this afternoon, no one need wonder that Vic through would.-be tacklers, twisting his hips m•; ay .from. th~Ir d~sperate lunges, back jump- · tor Hugo has been more or less lost in the· mg and writhmg hke a hulahula dancer under- I ·.>. shuffle. the .influence of rock brandy. · · · The halfbacks of. Notre Dame ran riot in I-~--;~~ .. defeating the mediocre looking Princeton· by Now it is Jim Crowley's chance, Crowley I .. the score of 12-0, a tally_ whi_ch by no means the whirling dervish, Crowley the fighter f: who. literally claws his way' through the hearf. f represents the · overwhelming superiority of of the melee; Crowley who deliberately offers the Westerners. Rockne's Rockets- roamed a tackler his foot and then 'vithdraws it· like wraiths over· the . cross-barred field to Crowley.who refuses to be stopped everi whe~ I•··· pile up the staggering totals·of 20 first downs·· three pmrs of orange-striped arms are clutch- by rushing, for an aggregate of 350 yards. ~ : ing his blue jersey. · · ! \·' .. ~are statistics make dry reading, but one Verily here is the mythical all-American ,. ____ _ Simply must understand the figures in order · backfield translated into reality; the. dream of to appreciate the complete ascendency ob a Walter Camp come true. No wonder Rockne tained by the gentlemen from Indiana. pops up and down on the side-lines as he sees 1:< Only a . crushing series of penalties and a · his outriders in . the blue drifting ghost-like l . distressing succession of fumbles prevented · through the crumbling orange wall; no won Notre Dame from rolling~~ up ·four touch I der, Capt. Adam Walsh forgets the pain in > ~owns instead of two. Despite the mislead l,:_· . Ing score, Princeton was never in the run his bandaged hands as he leans forward from ning. Until Weekes came in at halfback, the · his seat on the bench, his face· tense with [:·:~ Tiger offensive was a pathetic thing to con emotion; no wonder the thousands of loyal template, the plays being smothere·d · at the · Catholic rooters. massed in the west stand I \. -·. wave their azure-blue banners and ·shriek I goal .line with uniform regularity. . · L Prmceton employed the Nebraska defense hys~er_ica:lly. Thi~ is a great. team, gentlemen· f. against Rockne's lightning sweeps and slants, an mvest~en~ of beautiful precision., an out~ the tackles playing extrem.ely wide after the fit· that hits hke the hammer of Thor a bal fashion taught by Coach Fred Dawson. This . anced blend of power and deceptior: force defense, far more intelligently conceived than • and finesse; ' a typical Rockne team. a~d ipso that shown by the Army, proved futile in the facto one of the greatest. elevens of the mod face of the cyclonic speed unleashed by Harry ern era. Stuhldreher, the master mind of the· Notre Plays Same Trick He Did With Army. Dame_ eleven. .As well try to halt a Kansas cyclone as to ·sfem the blue wave from Notre· Rockne sprang a foxy trick on th~ brawny Dame which breaks with thrashing violence on Princeton eleven right at the start of ·the the luckless defensive ends and tackles. game. He took a chance which almost cost him dear. He gambled on his entire second Wo~ked Hop-Shift Line ~ Machine. . team to halt Princeton for one· whole period, . That neatl¥' . timed hop-sh_ift was working and the subs showed their beloved master With the precisiOn of a turbme engine. The that his faith was not misplaced. We have four Notre Dame hacks, aligned in. box for never before seim any coach start his entire mation, timed their jump to a nicety. As second string in a supposedly major game~ the ball was. passed, they halted with a click · Figuratively .speaking, it was a direct ship for. just the fraction of a second called for by at Princeton's face. . It was ·a neat bit of the r?les. Then the interferers· leaped ahead, psychology, for once Princeton found that the clearmg out the Tiger defenders as a forest South Bend subs could stop her varsity com of fire licks up dry underbrush. Beside tha bination, the ·Tigers· were seized ·with an in take-out man heading the tandem, . Rockne feriority complex that settled the issue then threw a roving guard against Princeton's and there. Rockne must have snickered up loose tackle. his sleeve as he ·sat on the bench and watched In a compact cluster, the Notre Dame hacks his subs play the Tiger regulars to a stand- · swept around the Tiger ends or cut back still. · viciously through tackle, interferers. mopping Meanwhile the. Princeton players realized . up the secondaries as the Yanks once mopped that Notre Dame had a lethal charge of cor up the German "pill boxes." It was fascinat dite, lyddite and T. N. T. bottled up on the ing to sit high up in the towering press box sidelines in. the sinewy persons of Miller, and watch Stuhldreher manipulate his men Crowley and Layden. Sly fox that he is, a~ Capablanca moves his pawns. Rockne knew that his three musketeers were Now it is Elmer Layden, the human mole, chafing. under this enforced inactivity, that on a bullet like plunge through the heart of they were clamping at the bit, eager to be the brawny Tiger line. Layden who skims up and at 'em. . ,'";.... ~ .,.;,,. Page~6~2~======~1~9~~~4~F~0~0~7~B~A~LL==R=E==V=JE=UJ======~====== Now It's Turn For the Regulars. as a Swiss-cheese has holes. The referee was As the first quarter ended, the crowd was unduly finicky and called "holding" and "off treated to a unique sight. Rockne rose from side" on almost every play. his bench, gesturing with his right · ha.I:td· March Up Field for 80 Yards. ·with a concerted bound, the eleven Hoosier regulars tossed aside their blankets and raced The second half had barely started ere like whippets into the field, while the stadium Notre Dame unleashed the best sustained ad thundered its ovation. vance of the afternoon, carrying .. the ball from her own 20-yard line clear across the "Here come the regulars," shouted from enemy goal. Unfortunately for .Notre Dame, a thousand Notre Dame throats. "\Vatch 'em this touchdown does not show m the sc~re, go." for the referee's eagle eye detected holdm$ As the sweat-smeared subs trooped off the on the play wherein Don Miller sneaked his field, Captain \Valsh personally slapped each way over the goal. man on the back and thanked him for ·his Elmer Layden was the hero of this superb valiant effort. Now the fun began. It was 80-yard advance, at one time shooting chunky Stuhldreher who. started it by catch through big holes for 17 yards. L~yden was ing the. Tiger punt and speeding 35 yards up ably assisted by Crowl~y and Mill~r, w~o the field. If you have seen a raindrop flit sneaked their way past Tiger tacklers m their down a window pane, now halting momen tarily, now darting ahead, you can conjure own inimitable fashion. up a mental picture of Stuhldreher's whirl Notre Dame's second touchdown came at wind run. u!e start of the final period, after a 70-yard march. Yards meant nothing to th~ Indiana Opening up his batteries, the Hoosier quar typhoon. Layden, Crowley and Mille: t -·. 192.4 FOOTBALL REVIEW Page 63 WARREN '"· BnowN all the country east and south of· Nebraska. (Chicago Herald and Examiner.) They demonstrated that they are as much at home on a snow-covered field in North Pole If \Valter Camp thought the Illinois-Chica weather as on green turf, in nice early Oc- go game was a sensational display of offen tober climate. . sive stuff, he should have been at Forbes Field Considerable aggregation, these Rockne today. ·walter would have dropped his mous Ramblers; from their fighting leader, Adam tache in astonishment at the marvelous exe Walsh, who, injured repeatgdly in to-day's cution of attacking plays by the Notre Dame fray, stuck to his job until victory was abso team. lute and certain, down to the lowliest of the In those two closing periods Notre Dame third string men who came so fast, and so tried six forward passes and completed all, numerous, late in the game that they defied bringing the total to twelve out of'fifteen for indentification. . the afternoon. They piled up fifteen first When they piled off ·the field today, their downs, for a total of twenty-six for ·the af uniforms streaked with mud and caked with ternoon, to Tech's six. They gave what m~sh~ snow, they se~t 32,000 Pittsburghers friends "Pop" Warner, late of Pittsburgh, had sh1vermg home, knowmg that they had seen I· in the house, plenty to write to him about for the greatest of the great. . If there is any reference on New Year's day at Pasadena. argument about it, "Pop" Warner, January They pulled their string of victories for the 1, and Pasadena are not so very far off. season to ten without a defeat. They They travel far, and they travel fast, these I clinched their claim to the championship of Horsemen. "·-1 ·:;; ·-:·&~ 't::!!!!!I!.IIII!I!!!!!!!!~~~~~Z:::!::=:::======:-·::·-::-:,• .,., ... ! :··=I======:=---~-· Jtf;_ -~ I t.. I t !. !' Notre Dame, National : Cham.pions t ; . Go buck and check the record over. Here nrc a few figures that will help you: In eighteen yea:rs of Notre Dame football, (1906-192•1), 153 games played, 135 .G won; 6 tied. . · /::·, In eighteen years, only seven rivals able to score victories. i- f Seven years, the Blue and Gold goal never crossed. '. ' Since 1918: 17•13 points against 275 points for our opponents; 56 out of 63 games w·on; 3 tied. Si~ce 1918, Notre Dame's average score 27 2-3 against 4 1-3 for our opponents. :- And for 1924? Nine games played. Nine games won. Not a ·game tied, not a game lost. That's the record up to January 1, 1925. National Champions. Now fill the lust score·binnk out for yourself: Notre Dame -~o,::::_~~7~---- Leland Stanford'------_/_·0=------ ;! Notre Dame, National Champions ,'.: 1- . . I~ . ... &CLAVE PRINTING co_,, SOUTH BEND .. ~ ' r : ... ~;,. - • T ._ n < • I ~ • , "- • ~ i • \ ' , t " • 0 :- .._ '. _-,. "...... ~"~·: _.;... ·:·: _:.··] ··- 1 - ·l j --:~-l ! .I j ._, "1 -4